Literature Review:
Perspectives on Caesarean Section in Urban Slums
Assignment # 3
Date: 13-03-2016
Ahmed Muttasim Billah
Email: muttasim.billah@brac.net
Perspectives on Caesarean Section in Urban Slums
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 3) demand countries “By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births” (The United Nations, 2015). Emergency obstetric care has important role to reduce maternal mortality. Caesarean section (CS) also known as C-section is the most crucial part of emergency obstetric care (Sarker et al., 2012). It is the procedure performed when normal vaginal delivery (NVD) might threaten the mother’s or baby’s life at risk. CS is the instrumental delivery through cut in the mother’s wall of abdomen and uterus to give birth a fetus (American College of …show more content…
However the decision for CS is way difficult than our thinking. It’s include not only medical features of the pregnant women as well as maternal attitudes & needs and familial attitudes toward CS (Sarker et al., 2012). So it indicates that due to CS delivery the urban slum dwelling women of Dhaka are prone to ill physical and economic consequences of health.
CS is a lifesaving procedure in spite of some demerits than delivery at home that is NVD, still C-section has some physical, economic, psychological and social effects on urban slums women of Dhaka. The slum dwelling women should know the risks, benefits, and reasons for CS before being referred. These can be empower the pregnant women so that they can make their own decision regarding the hospital instrumental delivery. So there is a scope of research where we can explore the knowledge, attitudes and practices of C-section among women and their decision maker family members of urban slums of Dhaka
Perspectives on Caesarean Section in Urban Slums
Assignment # 3
Date: 13-03-2016
Ahmed Muttasim Billah
Email: muttasim.billah@brac.net
Perspectives on Caesarean Section in Urban Slums
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 3) demand countries “By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births” (The United Nations, 2015). Emergency obstetric care has important role to reduce maternal mortality. Caesarean section (CS) also known as C-section is the most crucial part of emergency obstetric care (Sarker et al., 2012). It is the procedure performed when normal vaginal delivery (NVD) might threaten the mother’s or baby’s life at risk. CS is the instrumental delivery through cut in the mother’s wall of abdomen and uterus to give birth a fetus (American College of …show more content…
However the decision for CS is way difficult than our thinking. It’s include not only medical features of the pregnant women as well as maternal attitudes & needs and familial attitudes toward CS (Sarker et al., 2012). So it indicates that due to CS delivery the urban slum dwelling women of Dhaka are prone to ill physical and economic consequences of health.
CS is a lifesaving procedure in spite of some demerits than delivery at home that is NVD, still C-section has some physical, economic, psychological and social effects on urban slums women of Dhaka. The slum dwelling women should know the risks, benefits, and reasons for CS before being referred. These can be empower the pregnant women so that they can make their own decision regarding the hospital instrumental delivery. So there is a scope of research where we can explore the knowledge, attitudes and practices of C-section among women and their decision maker family members of urban slums of Dhaka