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Author: Robert Black
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 1464803684
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 419

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The evaluation of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) by the Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (DCP3) focuses on maternal conditions, childhood illness, and malnutrition. Specifically, the chapters address acute illness and undernutrition in children, principally under age 5. It also covers maternal mortality, morbidity, stillbirth, and influences to pregnancy and pre-pregnancy. Volume 3 focuses on developments since the publication of DCP2 and will also include the transition to older childhood, in particular, the overlap and commonality with the child development volume. The DCP3 evaluation of these conditions produced three key findings: 1. There is significant difficulty in measuring the burden of key conditions such as unintended pregnancy, unsafe abortion, nonsexually transmitted infections, infertility, and violence against women. 2. Investments in the continuum of care can have significant returns for improved and equitable access, health, poverty, and health systems. 3. There is a large difference in how RMNCH conditions affect different income groups; investments in RMNCH can lessen the disparity in terms of both health and financial risk.

Author: Maya Patricia Adlam
Publisher:
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Category : Maternal health services
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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This thesis explores maternal mortality and morbidity through a rights-based approach. It examines the case of Timor Leste, a young country in Southeast Asia that has experienced many human rights violations and is still currently experiencing a number of challenges to development, including high fertility and maternal mortality rates. The problem of maternal mortality and morbidity has been a tragic problem in a number of developing countries. The problem is that no matter how advanced the medical system has become, maternal mortality is still a major problem that is yet to be overcome. Now that the United Nations Human Rights council has recognized maternal mortality as a human rights issue, much focus has been placed in studying the problem through a rights based approach to see if this might speed the process of reducing the number of preventable maternal deaths as well as morbidity. However, many women in developing countries are still unaware of their rights and some do not even know the meaning of rights in the modern sense. This study also investigates the related issues of the collaboration of service providers/donors collaboration in improving maternal health; the need to clearly prioritise issues and challenges. This study finds that while collaboration is evident in Timor Leste, there are still some organizations that believe that collaboration and communication can be further increased to maximize the benefits of teamwork. If there is systematic collaboration between all the relevant government departments, local and international NGOs as well as all the multilateral and bilateral organizations then it will be easier to identify problems and assign responsibilities to all stakeholders. Moreover, this study found that the concept of rights is still not fully understood by women in Timor Leste, so key stakeholders also need to develop a strategy to inform and educate the whole population regarding the meaning of rights and how these can be achieved. At the same time, the health system in Timor Leste will need to be able to support and encourage women to exercise their rights without fear. This is more likely to be achieved when the government and key organizations develop a way to maximize efforts to work around or minimize issues and challenges, which in the case of Timor Leste are culture, tradition, lack of education and information, domestic violence, religion.

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309452961
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 583

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In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.

Author: Paul Hunt
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135926085
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 251

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The scale of maternal mortality and morbidity today is staggering. This book focuses on a vital part of a human rights response to maternal mortality, viz. accountability. Accountability encompasses monitoring, review and redress at the local, national and international levels. The book's context includes the UN Human Rights Council maternal mortality and morbidity resolutions, as well as Millennium Development Goal 5. It comes out of a roundtable conference held in Geneva during 2010 that examined maternal mortality, human rights and accountability and provided a forum where maternal health and human rights experts could listen to, and learn from, each other. As well as revised and updated conference papers, this volume includes a rich collection of additional resource material on maternal mortality, human rights and accountability.

Author: UNICEF.
Publisher: UNICEF
ISBN: 9280643185
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Having a child remains one of the biggest health risks for women worldwide. Fifteen hundred women die every day while giving birth. That's a half a million mothers every year. UNICEF's flagship publication, The State of the World's Children 2009, addresses maternal mortality, one of the most intractable problems for development work.The difference in pregnancy risk between women in developing countries and their peers in the industrialised world is often termed the greatest health divide in the world. A woman in Niger has a one in seven chance of dying during the course of her lifetime from complications during pregnancy or delivery. That's in stark contrast to the risk for mothers in America, where it's one in 4,800 or in Ireland, where it's just one in 48,000. Addressing that gap is a multidisciplinary challenge, requiring an emphasis on education, human resources, community involvement and social equality. At a minimum, women must be guaranteed antenatal care, skilled birth attendants and emergency obstetrics, and postpartum care. These essential interventions will only be guaranteed within the context of improved education and the abolition of discrimination.

Author: World Health Organization
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789241549912
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Within the continuum of reproductive health care, antenatal care provides a platform for important health-care functions, including health promotion, screening and diagnosis, and disease prevention. It has been established that, by implementing timely and appropriate evidence-based practices, antenatal care can save lives. Endorsed by the United Nations Secretary-General, this is a comprehensive WHO guideline on routine antenatal care for pregnant women and adolescent girls. It aims to complement existing WHO guidelines on the management of specific pregnancy-related complications. The guidance captures the complex nature of the antenatal care issues surrounding healthcare practices and delivery, and prioritizes person-centered health and well-being --- not only the prevention of death and morbidity --- in accordance with a human rights-based approach.

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309457637
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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While much progress has been made on achieving the Millenium Development Goals over the last decade, the number and complexity of global health challenges has persisted. Growing forces for globalization have increased the interconnectedness of the world and our interdependency on other countries, economies, and cultures. Monumental growth in international travel and trade have brought improved access to goods and services for many, but also carry ongoing and ever-present threats of zoonotic spillover and infectious disease outbreaks that threaten all. Global Health and the Future Role of the United States identifies global health priorities in light of current and emerging world threats. This report assesses the current global health landscape and how challenges, actions, and players have evolved over the last decade across a wide range of issues, and provides recommendations on how to increase responsiveness, coordination, and efficiency â€" both within the U.S. government and across the global health field.

Author: Aruna Kashyap
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 1564325474
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Study conducted chiefly in Uttar Pradesh.

Author: UNESCO
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
ISBN: 9231002597
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 139

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