Research On Maternal And Child Health Care Work In The Shaanxi-gansu-ningxia Border Region During The Comprehensive Anti Japanese War

Maternal and child health care is closely related to family harmony,social stability and national prosperity,and is one of the important indicators to measure social progress.The health issues of maternal and child groups have always been the focus of attention of governments.After the establishment of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Government in 1937,due to frequent natural disasters,backward medical,health and cultural conditions,financial and economic difficulties in the early days of its establishment,and the special wartime environment,diseases occurred frequently among the people,especially the health and life safety of women and children,and the border region government actively carried out health care work for women and children.However,the current research on maternal and child health care in Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border area during the Anti-Japanese War lacks a detailed investigation of social practice,and it is difficult to fully show the actual development of maternal and child health work at grassroots level.This paper takes the maternal and child health care work in Shan-Gansu-Ningxia Border area during the Anti-Japanese War as the research object,and discusses the gradual progress of the maternal and child health care work from scratch with the help of newspapers,local compilations and general history works.In the face of various problems in maternal and child health,the government of Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region has adopted a series of decisions and measures to safeguard maternal and child health and formulated relevant laws and regulations,set up health administrative organs,health and medical institutions,set up women’s rescue association,children’s protection association and other institutions,and gradually formed a relatively complete maternal and child health care system.Based on this,the border region has carried out a series of specific maternal and child health care work,such as the promotion of new methods of midwifery;Training of maternal and child health care providers;Attaching importance to children’s diet and strengthening their resistance have reduced the mortality rate of maternal and infant diseases,greatly improved the health of women and children in the border areas,and raised the health awareness of the people in the border areas.However,limited by historical conditions,there are also certain shortcomings in the process of carrying out maternal and child health care work,such as the need to improve the professional level of medical personnel.The development pattern of maternal and child health care work in Shaan-Gansu-Ningxia border area is a microcosm of the maternal and child health care work in the base areas,and also presents the complexity and twists of maternal and child health care work in the environment of war.This article tries to show the gains and losses of the development of maternal and child health work in Shaan-Gansu-Ningxia border area,hoping to play a certain reference role for the development of maternal and child health work at the grass-roots level in the future.