Healthy Future
With a focus on rural pregnant women, the program aims to provide new mothers and infants with quality health care and support by bringing salient knowledge to the home.
Community Health Workers, mainly women from the local community, were trained to deliver customized micro-learning of the Healthy Future curriculum through monthly home visits to expecting mothers and caregivers of young children in Sichuan province.
A purposely-built iPad app facilitates the micro-learning to cater to each family’s health and mental health needs during every home visit. A large-scale Randomized Control Trial (RCT) collected evidence on the impact of the program on key maternal and child outcomes.
The intervention is completed in August 2022 that reached more than 1,300 families and delivered more than 6,000 home visits. The Healthy Future program had significant impact on breastfeeding and children’s dietary diversity, while leading to reduced rates of depression, anxiety, and stress among all participating caregivers.
To further sustain and scale up the impact, the team is working on a follow-up project expected to be launched in 2024 to combine the Healthy Future curriculum with the Parental Training intervention into a single, integrated program.
