Download or read book Unsafe Motherhood written by Nicole S. Berry and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1987, when the global community first recognized the high frequency of women in developing countries dying from pregnancy-related causes, little progress has been made to combat this problem. This study follows the global policies that have been implemented in Sololá, Guatemala in order to decrease high rates of maternal mortality among indigenous Mayan women. The author examines the diverse meanings and understandings of motherhood, pregnancy, birth and birth-related death among the biomedical personnel, village women, their families, and midwives. These incongruous perspectives, in conjunction with the implementation of such policies, threaten to disenfranchise clients from their own cultural understandings of self. The author investigates how these policies need to meld with the everyday lives of these women, and how the failure to do so will lead to a failure to decrease maternal deaths globally.
Download or read book The Safe Motherhood Initiative written by Barbara Knapp Herz and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Giving Up Baby written by Laury Oaks and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Baby safe haven" laws, which allow a parent to relinquish a newborn baby legally and anonymously at a specified institutional location--such as a hospital or fire station--were established in every state between 1999 and 2009. Promoted during a time of heated public debate over policies on abortion, sex education, teen pregnancy, adoption, welfare, immigrant reproduction, and child abuse, safe haven laws were passed by the majority of states with little contest. These laws were thought to offer a solution to the consequences of unwanted pregnancies: mothers would no longer be burdened with children they could not care for, and newborn babies would no longer be abandoned in dumpsters. Yet while these laws are well meaning, they inadequately address the social injustices that compel abandonment for the very small number of girls and women who abandon their newborns. Advocates of safe haven laws target teenagers, women of color and poor women in particular with safe haven information under the assumption that they cannot offer good homes for their children. Laury Oaks argues that the labeling of certain kinds of women as potential "bad" mothers who should consider anonymously giving up their newborns for adoption into a "loving" home should best be understood as an issue of reproductive justice. Safe haven discourses promote narrow images of who deserves to be a mother and reflect restrictive views on how we should treat women experiencing an unplanned pregnancy.
Download or read book Safe Motherhood Initiatives written by Marge Berer and published by Blackwell Science. This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Conference on Population and Development in 1999 reaffirmed their international commitment to Safe Motherhood by setting out essential strategic actions. This book provides an overview of the problems and challenges raised by this work (Safe Motherhood) and examples of efforts toward the achievement of Safe Motherhood goals in developing countries. The first section presents an outline on the evidence, leadership, resources, and action for the prevention of maternal mortality. Second section presents the measurement, indicators, uses, and limitations of health outcome indicators for maternal mortality and measurements for maternal morbidity. Third section presents the Safe Motherhood programs in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Bolivia, South Africa, and Kenya. The fourth section discusses several case studies on causes of maternal deaths and morbidity in India, Mexico, Vietnam, Ghana, and Tanzania, with emphasis on common pregnancy and childbirth-related complications. The fifth and last section stresses the significance of effective policies and programs in preventing maternal mortality, while emphasizing the need to address HIV/AIDS, pregnancy and maternal mortality and morbidity concerns in South Africa and Nigeria.
Download or read book Supporting Safe Motherhood written by L. M. Howard and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost 500,000 women a year from developing countries die from pregnancy- related causes. In 1987, an international conference in Nairobi, Kenya launched a global Safe Motherhood Initiative with World Bank co-sponsorship. By 1989, how were the donors responding to the Initiative?
Download or read book Iyengar Yoga for Motherhood written by Geeta S. Iyengar and published by Sterling/Penn. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its allopathic medical vetting, and more than 400 illustrations, this guide is intended for every yoga instructor, mother-to-be, and new mum who wants to continue her practice. It features instructions and hints, notes on the position's positive effects and contra-indications, and advice on "checking yourself" for proper form and technique.
Download or read book Safe Motherhood written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Safe Motherhood in a Globalized World written by Barbara Wejnert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides cutting edge information on safe motherhood in a global context. The chapters focus on research, program development and implementation, and policy dealing with various aspects of pregnancy, labor and delivery. Safe motherhood is a critical issue since healthy, safe motherhood is the prerequisite for a healthy, productive society. Writing about the situation in their countries, the authors are from Eastern Europe, America, Asia and Africa and are academic scholars and health practitioners. The book is multidisciplinary with scholars from sociology, gender studies, economics, social policy, social geography, population management and political science. Topics include lactation policy and misunderstandings of lactations in African countries and in the United States; postnatal stress disorder that is either understudied or not considered as a problem in many developing countries; potential causes of a decline of maternal health in democratizing states; the effect of geographical environment on reproductive health; and revelation of mysteries of consequences of pre-birth pain in the early life of children. Case studies provide examples of successful model programs. Solutions offered are based on utilizing available resources and technology in ways that maximize education and training of local health professionals and family members. This book was published as a special issue of Marriage and Family Review.
Download or read book SAFE MOTHERHOOD AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN THE CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE written by Prof. (Dr.) Subhasish Chatterjee, Ms. Paunami Dey, Mrs. Irene Darlong, Prof. (Dr.) Ranabir Pal and published by Shashwat Publication. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Women and Reproductive Health" explores women's reproductive health, focusing on cultural, educational, and socio-economic aspects. It begins with "Early Marriage and Pregnancy," discussing the impact of early unions on women's health. The book then delves into menopause, emphasising the importance of support networks and healthcare services. It also discusses menstrual hygiene, antenatal care, postnatal care, contraceptive techniques, and anaemia during pregnancy. The book aims to understand the complexities of women's reproductive health and appreciate the resilience and diversity of women worldwide.
Download or read book Making Motherhood Safe written by Anne G. Tinker and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection reviews national policies that critically influence economic performance in developing countries. It describes principles that shape good economic policy and illustrates them with case studies. In an overview that draws together insights from the essays, the volume editor explains why poor countries need sound government policies to offset unfavorable conditions, including scant natural resources, adverse problems that occur with monetary and exchange rate policies and financial sector reform. The basic rules for monetary policy in an open economy are developed along with the different ways in which financial reform and financial repression affect an economy. Practical ways to deal with foreign exchange markets are described. They include such arrangements as multiple exchange rates for commercial transactions and dual rates that separate commercial and financial transactions. Also examined are the ways in which trade liberalization and trade restrictions impede economic development. Advice is given on developing a uniform structure that balances the administration of taxes with the efficiency of a tax structure. The book examines the relationship between budget deficits and money creation and suggests management strategies for developing sound economic policy that include advice on inflation control, international trade, import restrictions, income tax rates, and price and wage controls. Published for the World Bank by Oxford University Press.
Download or read book Sowing the Seeds of Safe Motherhood in Sub Saharan Africa written by Kelsey A. Harrison and published by Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In most areas of Sub Saharan Africa, it is expensive, dangerous, and unsafe to give birth especially when pregnancy is complicated by life threatening conditions. Safe caesarean section has a key role to play in making childbearing safer, but it costs around $300 or more, and in a continent where most people live on less than $1 per day, this is simply unaffordable to most households. Worse still, many cannot afford even the user fees charged. Additionally the public healthcare systems are run down and understaffed, often with demoralised, underpaid and poorly motivated workers, who often have to moonlight in order to supplement their wages. Poverty and inadequacies in existing healthcare services and public utilities are however not the only factors undermining safe motherhood in Africa. Governance structures are also weak and life for most people is harsh and chaotic. Religious doctrines, harmful cultural beliefs, and lack of education often reinforce women's inferior status, and the neglect that follows, especially during pregnancy, labour and puerperium combine to produce the appalling health statistics common in Sub-Saharan Africa today. For instance maternal deaths per 100,000 deliveries are close to 900, and for every 1000 children born, 100 die during the first week, and 130 weigh less than 2.5 kg at birth. Kelsey Harrison worked and researched on these issues for close to four decades and during that period published extensively in many of the most highly regarded peer-reviewed journals in medicine. This book is a selection of some of his publications in such journals as The Lancet, British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, British Medical Journal, Clinical Science and Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine between 1966 and 2010. Included in this volume is the groundbreaking Zaria Maternity Survey, which he initiated and whose results and recommendations are now being gradually accepted globally as the model for enhancing maternal health in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Download or read book Safe Motherhood written by World Health Organisation Staff and published by . This book was released on 1998-11-21 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managing Motherhood Managing Risk written by Denise Allen and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk, Denise Roth Allen persuasively argues that development interventions in the Third World often have unintended and unacknowledged consequences. Based on twenty-two months of fieldwork in the Shinyanga Region of west central Tanzania, this rich and engaging ethnography of women's fertility-related experiences highlights the processes by which a set of seemingly well-intentioned international maternal health policy recommendations go awry when implemented at the local level. An exploration of how threats to maternal health have been defined and addressed at the global, national, and local levels, Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk presents two contrasting, and oftentimes competing, definitions of risk: those that form the basis of international recommendations and national maternal health policies and those that do not. The effect that these contrasting definitions of risk have on women's fertility-related experiences at the local level are explored throughout the book. This study employs an innovative approach to the analysis of maternal health risk, one that situates rural Tanzanian women's fertility-related experiences within a broader historical and sociocultural context. Beginning with an examination of how maternal health risk was defined and addressed during the early years of British colonial rule in Tanganyika and moving to a discussion of an internationally conceived maternal health initiative that was launched on the world stage in the late 1980s, the author explores the similarities in the language used and solutions proposed by health development experts over time. This set of "official" maternal health risks is then compared to an alternative set of risks that emerge when attention is focused on women's experiences of pregnancy and childbirth at the local level. Although some of these latter risks are often spoken about as deriving from spiritual or supernatural causes, the case studies presented throughout the second half of the book reveal that the concept of risk in the context of pregnancy and childbirth is much more complex, involving the interplay of spiritual, physical, and economic aspects of everyday life.
Download or read book Midwives and Safer Motherhood written by Susan F. Murray and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MIDWIVES AND SAFER MOTHERHOOD draws its title from the Safe Motherhood Initiative (WHO, UNFPA, World Bank, 1987). This book provides a unique insight into the ways in which midwives may be involved in the achievement of safer motherhood, especially a reduction in maternal mortality and morbidity. Divided into four key areas, it explores: Research for Safer Motherhood, Midwives' Changing Roles, Midwifery Education, and The Midwifery Profession Internationally. The international team of contributors offers a rich and varied perspective on the changing role of midwives worldwide.
Download or read book Disease Control Priorities Third Edition Volume 2 written by Robert Black and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Safe Motherhood written by World Health Organization. Division of Family and Reproductive Health. Maternal and Newborn Health/Safe Motherhood Unit and published by . This book was released on 1998-07-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reproductive Health in Developing Countries written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-07-02 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexually transmitted diseases, unintended pregnancies, infertility, and other reproductive problems are a growing concern around the world, especially in developing countries. Reproductive Health in Developing Countries describes the magnitude of these problems and what is known about the effectiveness of interventions in the following areas: Infection-free sex. Immediate priorities for combating sexually transmitted and reproductive tract diseases are identified. Intended pregnancies and births. The panel reports on the state of family planning and ways to provide services. Healthy pregnancy and delivery. The book explores the myths and substantive socio-economic problems that underlie maternal deaths. Healthy sexuality. Such issues as sexual violence and the practice of female genital mutilation are discussed in terms of the cultural contexts in which they occur. Addressing the design and delivery of reproductive health services, this volume presents lessons learned from past programs and offers principles for deciding how to spend limited available funds. Reproductive Health in Developing Countries will be of special interest to policymakers, health care professionals, and researchers working on reproductive issues in the developing world.
