摘要：Postnatal care includes proper implementation of care and education to preserving mother and infants' health. Imperfect implementation of postnatal care may negatively influence mother and infant. Therefore this study was conducted to determine the rate of adaptation between postnatal care and national standards in Ahvaz public health centers. In this descriptive study 10 public health centers in Ahvaz were chosen randomly. The postnatal care offered to 200 mothers by the personnel and filled in the second phases (10-15 days) form was observed in this study. Data was analyzed by descriptive statistics. Average age of the participants was 27.35 ±4.9 years. Clinical examination, health education (personal, psychological, sexual, oral and dental), education women about dangerous signs in postpartum had weak adaptation with national standards in 90% of the cases. Others educations also showed weak adaptation in most cases. In questioning of ”vaginal bleeding, abnormal vaginal discharge, urinary difficulties, background illnesses, dizziness, pain, domestic violence, mental disorders” 59% and in vital signs measuring 59% of cases had weak adaptation. However in prescribing medicinal supplement in 54% of cases modest and in 21% of cases good adaptation were observed. Postnatal care offered to women in public health centers has a weak adaptation with national guidelines. It seems that policy makers should have more supervision on postnatal care
关键词：Postnatal care; Standard; Public health centers
