Maternal deprivation

The Maternal mortality ratio is 676 per 100,000 live births in Ethiopia ("Analytical summary-maternal and newborn health," n.d.). Upon my stay in Koraro, Ethiopia I cared for many local individuals, but as far as my experience with death, there is one particular individual that comes to mind. It was early…

Reported short-term side effects of THC are sedation, lethargy, weakness, and poor eating habits. The authors of the interpretation of these results explain that exposure to THC in breastfed infants makes the infants have side effects, and lead to maternal…

Maternal health is defined as the health of women during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period.(“WHO | Maternal health,” 2016) It is used as an indicator for evaluating the quality of health care systems and is assessed using estimates of maternal mortality and morbidity rates. Maternal health is a significant aspect of the health of populations and the repeated emphasis placed on this health issue by global institutions and local governments over the years, reiterates its importance.…

There were 281 participants in this experimental study. Most of the participants were family or friends of students in a research methods class at Florida International University, and they were recruited through email, personal, or telephone request. One hundred ninety one participants were female (68%) and 90 were male (32%). They range from age 13 to 92 (M= 32.33, SD= 13.58). This included 63 Caucasian participants (22.4%), 56 African American participants (19.9%), 8 Asian participants (2.8%)…

conditions. Whenever the maternal representation is missing for the boys, the moon is always present, which highlights the loss of their mother, who is watching over them from the skies. Additionally, the author uses the moon to also foreshadow the reunion of the boys with their mother. On page 287, as the boys played, “the moon freed herself from the last field and looked evenly across as the imaginary ocean tragedy taking place so far inland”, which indicates the maternal presence from above…

Planned Parenthood should not lose any funding or be shut down. Despite recent abortion controversies, Planned Parenthood should not be held responsible for pro-abortion advocates. The organization is pro-choice, and intends to give the choice back to the people in order to allow them to choose a better life for themselves. If Planned Parenthood loses its funding or gets shut down, people everywhere, but especially low-income families, will be put in a difficult standing in affordable health…

recorded births and deaths can explain a great deal in the area of population dynamics. A particularly descriptive category of mortality is those in maternal/infant populations, life expectancy and a number of specific causes of death. These factors are very revealing in regards to infrastructure,…

Brand-Name Meds” by Charles Orstein et. al share a unique connection beyond their health-care-related focus, they both discuss outcomes regarding treatment after significant changes in payment. In the former article, the issue seems to be pay cuts as maternal mortality in Texas skyrockets after cuts to Planned Parenthood, however, the author offers another biologic explanation “…cardiac problems. The second leading cause: drug overdoses. Hemorrhages and blood transfusion were the biggest…

These needs include; reducing hunger, achieving universal primary education, empowering women, reducing childhood mortality, decreasing the spread of diseases, reducing maternal mortality, increasing environmental stability, and creating global partnerships (Millennium Development Goals, 2015). Throughout the novel, Nectar in A Sieve, the family struggles to achieve an acceptable standard of living. Since then, the Millennium…

nature in which he mentions, “the fifty-second year if her age, vowed she had never behold a man without his coat…” (40-41). This small addition that Fielding includes in the passage introduces to the audience that Mrs. Wilkins has never been in a maternal position due to the fact that she has never seen a man without a shirt. Furthermore, the theme of Mrs. Wilkins’ prudishness continues in the way she addresses the infant as a “fellow-creature” and its mother a “hussy” (51,56). The emotions and…