Nursing Care for Pre-marital Care

- Premarital Care Program

General Objective:

To provide comprehensive care for couples about to marry that ensures protection of both spouses from the transmission of diseases that affect the life or health of either of them or the health of their offspring.

Specific Objectives:

·       Detecting chronic diseases and providing counseling and health, psychological, and social support to both parties.

·       Detecting hereditary diseases that may be passed on to their children and providing counseling about them to prevent the birth of children carrying these diseases.

·       Detecting and treating infectious genital diseases and providing counseling on ways to prevent and reduce them.

Expected Results of Implementing the National Program for the Care of Couples About to Marry:

First: At the Individual and Family Level

·       Increasing health awareness of sound principles and scientific foundations for building a healthy family.

·       Choosing a suitable marriage partner to avoid having children with hereditary diseases.

·       Reducing the social and psychological problems of families whose children suffer from hereditary diseases.

·       Reducing divorce cases that may result from problems related to chronic diseases and childbearing.

Second: At the National Level:

·       Increasing the utilization rate of health services and the resulting improvement in health standards.

·       Reducing the spread of infectious and hereditary diseases.

·       Building a generation free of hereditary diseases.

·       Reducing the financial burden resulting from treating people with hereditary or infectious diseases.

·       Providing allocations from the state budget for treating many diseases that could be prevented, and directing these budgets to other areas.