Project Name and Responsible
Kiyoko Okamoto, President JMA
Japanese Midwives Association
2-12-2 Torigoe Taitoku Tokyo
Japan
Mongolian Midwives Feldsher’s Association (MMFA)
Kyushu University Department Midwifery
ESPOIR SANOFI “Midwives For Life”
Japanese Midwives Association
2-12-2 Torigoe Taitoku Tokyo
Japan
Mongolian Midwives Feldsher’s Association (MMFA)
Kyushu University Department Midwifery
ESPOIR SANOFI “Midwives For Life”
Mobile app screens
|
|
|
Happy Baby, Happy Mom in English
|
|
|
Visit to midwives in Ulanbataar, 18 April 2018.
Mrs Amelie Moritz visits the midwives of the Mongolian Midwives Association (MMA) using the Happy Baby, Happy Mom mobile application for pregnant women
Mrs Amelie Moritz visits the midwives of the Mongolian Midwives Association (MMA) using the Happy Baby, Happy Mom mobile application for pregnant women
Happy Mom Seminar in Mongolia, 15 August 2017
|
|
|
Midwives using the app at the Second Maternity Hospital of Ulaanbaatar, (SMHU) in Mongolia
Their testimonies :
"It is easy to use and understand as a Mongolia."
"It is wonderful to have it in the Mongolian language."
"It is great to be able to work out my BMI"
Their testimonies :
"It is easy to use and understand as a Mongolia."
"It is wonderful to have it in the Mongolian language."
"It is great to be able to work out my BMI"
At mongolian hospital
Japanese Midwives dairy life
At the Training seminar in Ulaanbatar, August 2016
Twinning Symposium, 22nd July 2015
Meeting of JMA members visiting Mongolia, 24th – 30th September 2015
Twinning Workshop, 20th July 2015
Project Description
The project aims to contribute to the reduction of maternal mortality and improvement of the health of pregnant women and infants in Mongolia and support the Mongolian midwives to offer more accessible and practical midwifery services in the country. Through this project JMA will share and transfer skills and knowledge of midwifery practice and services to MMFA to enable them to provide quality midwifery services and pregnancy guidance for pregnant women and their babies in Mongolia.
The Key activities will be Health education of women and their families. As the first step to improve health and mortality rate of pregnant women and their babies in Mongolia, JMA believes that enlightenment of women and their families to avoid obesity is the most effective, important and urgent action to be taken. Therefore, the organization is creating a brochure for them to explain about dangerous health problems caused by obesity, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, complications, and blood loss at childbirth, which could all lead to death, knowledge necessary to maintain health and information about diet. JMA aims at distributing this brochure to 82,000 pregnant women for free.
Institutionalizing the information in the schools of midwifery JMA also plans on developing a textbook for midwives in Mongolia based on the maternity health guidance and midwifery services that Japanese midwives provide in Japan. The textbook will include instructions and guidelines concerning providing health and dietary guidance to prevent obesity, prenatal checkups, and prevention of accidents during childbirths, and medical information explaining why overeating, obesity and so forth are dangerous for pregnancy.
The Key activities will be Health education of women and their families. As the first step to improve health and mortality rate of pregnant women and their babies in Mongolia, JMA believes that enlightenment of women and their families to avoid obesity is the most effective, important and urgent action to be taken. Therefore, the organization is creating a brochure for them to explain about dangerous health problems caused by obesity, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, complications, and blood loss at childbirth, which could all lead to death, knowledge necessary to maintain health and information about diet. JMA aims at distributing this brochure to 82,000 pregnant women for free.
Institutionalizing the information in the schools of midwifery JMA also plans on developing a textbook for midwives in Mongolia based on the maternity health guidance and midwifery services that Japanese midwives provide in Japan. The textbook will include instructions and guidelines concerning providing health and dietary guidance to prevent obesity, prenatal checkups, and prevention of accidents during childbirths, and medical information explaining why overeating, obesity and so forth are dangerous for pregnancy.
Brochure sponsored by “the Midwives For Life”
Project Agreement With The WeObservatory
With its recognized expertise in IT technologies, eHealth, Telemedicine and mobile health (mHealth), the WeObservatory offer the following options for a one-year common collaboration:
1. Adapt the pamphlet or brochure planned to be printed and distributed to 82.000 pregnant women in Mongolia, to be visualized on mobile phones. Pregnant women appreciate reading and hearing information on their mobiles in their own language. Having the pamphlet on mobiles will permit to reach more pregnant women in the future, in addition to those receiving the printed pamphlets. This will depend on the length of the text in the pamphlet, the visuals such as logos, photos.
2. In the future and depending on the availability of the contents and funds, with respect to the Text Book for Midwives, after the translation in Mongolian, it may be considered working on an electronic version to make it accessible to Mongolian midwives from their computers, tablets and mobiles.s
Planned Activities 2016
- Japanese Version of the pamphlet planned by Mid-February.
- Mongolian and English translations planned by the end of March.
- Feasibility study and budget for adaptation to mobiles: June.
- Agreement: July
- Mongolian Midwives Training Conference – August 2016
- Technical development and testing: September to November
- Final mobile version in Mongolian: December 2016
Contacts and Collaborations
- ISfTeH – International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth – Working Group on Women
- MEDETEL 2014 - 2017
