Estrategia Instituciones Amigas de la Mujer y la Infancia, con enfoque integral en Colombia / Women-and Child-Friendly Institutional Strategies with an integral approach in Colombia

Implementar y documentar una estrategia de atención en salud materna e infantil de ámbito territorial y de las instituciones de salud no es frecuente. Por esta razón, el objetivo es presentar la experiencia realizada por un equipo consultor (dos médicos, dos nutricionistas y dos enfermeras), cuyo propósito era apoyar la implementación de la Estrategia Instituciones Amigas de la Mujer y la Infancia con enfoque integral en 25 instituciones prestadoras de salud de tres departamentos de Colombia (Cauca, Huila y Nariño), seleccionados según necesidades básicas insatisfechas. Considerada una estrategia de alta gerencia, plantea una metodología concreta que permite seguir a las instituciones una ruta exitosa, para implementar una estrategia de atención en salud y nutrición materna e infantil, y les ofrece la posibilidad de acreditarse voluntariamente como una Institución Amiga de la Mujer y la Infancia (AU)

It is uncommon to implement and document a maternal and child healthcare strategy on a territorial and institutional level is infrequent. Therefore, we aimed to describe the experience of a consulting team composed of two physicians, two nurses and two nutritionists, whose purpose was to support the introduction of the Women- and Child-Friendly Institutional Strategy with an integral approach in 25 healthcare institutions in three Colombian departments (Cauca, Huila and Nariño), according to unmet basic needs. The Women- and Child-Friendly Institutional Strategy, considered a senior management strategy, promotes a specific method that allows monitoring of institutions during the implementation of a health and nutritional care strategy for women and children, and offers them the possibility of voluntarily becoming accredited as a Women- and Child-Friendly Institutions (AU)

[Women-and Child-Friendly Institutional Strategies with an integral approach in Colombia]. / Estrategia Instituciones Amigas de la Mujer y la Infancia, con enfoque integral en Colombia.

It is uncommon to implement and document a maternal and child healthcare strategy on a territorial and institutional level is infrequent. Therefore, we aimed to describe the experience of a consulting team composed of two physicians, two nurses and two nutritionists, whose purpose was to support the introduction of the Women- and Child-Friendly Institutional Strategy with an integral approach in 25 healthcare institutions in three Colombian departments (Cauca, Huila and Nariño), according to unmet basic needs. The Women- and Child-Friendly Institutional Strategy, considered a senior management strategy, promotes a specific method that allows monitoring of institutions during the implementation of a health and nutritional care strategy for women and children, and offers them the possibility of voluntarily becoming accredited as a Women- and Child-Friendly Institutions.