National Center for Women and Children's Health

The National Center for Women's and Children's Health (WCH) is a national professional organization for women's and children's health under the China CDC. It is the national center for the technical direction of women's and children's health care including maternal and child health (WCH/MCH). The core of the center's work is to implement the Law of the People's Republic of China on Maternal and Infant Health Care, the Program for Development of Chinese Women and the National Program of Action for Child Development in China. The center’s guiding principles  are“take preventive care as the priority and the safeguarding of reproductive health as the goal, and combine preventive health care and clinical practice to serve at-risk groups and the general public”.

 

 

1. Implement WCH/MCH work and provide technical support and suggestions for the formulation of national laws, regulations, policies, plans and programs of WCH/MCH;

 

2. Organize the formulation of WCH/MCH technical programs, guidelines and standards;

 

3. Carry out scientific research concerning WCH/MCH, and monitor and evaluate women's and children's health and its influencing factors;

 

4. Carry out the digitization of WCH/MCH, and take responsibility for information collection, management, and technical support for its application;

 

5. Implement professional guidance on local WCH/MCH work, organize professional training, promote new technologies and methods, and participate in the technical assessment and evaluation of maternal and child health services;

 

6. Carry out maternal and child health education, health science dissemination and health promotion;

 

7. Carry out postgraduate education and continuing education in the field of the WCH/MCH;

 

8. Carry out international exchanges and cooperation concerning the WCH/MCH;

 

9. Accomplish other tasks entrusted by the China CDC.