Maternal health

Fighting maternal mortality in developing countries like Bolivia can be very challenging. This topic has become a huge focus for numerous programs. Strategies being adapted and programs being developed have targeted the reduction of maternal mortality. There has been a positive improvement throughout these past couple of years in the availability of in-country resources that have been applied to combat this battle. These resources vary from human, material, and financial. To begin, the…

Mid-term Evaluation of the UNDP funded project Sexual and Reproductive Health in Lao PDR BACKGROUND Organizational Background Pathfinder International (PI) is a leading international non-profit organization engaged in the area of sexual and reproductive health. PI with its mission ‘to ensure that people everywhere have the right and opportunity to live a healthy sexual and reproductive life’ believes that the reproductive health care is not only a part of basic human right, but also an…

Despite progress in some countries, the global number of maternal deaths per year estimated at 529,000 or one every minute during the year 2000 has not changed significantly since the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), according to recent estimates by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA (2003). Millions more women survive but suffer from illness and disability related to pregnancy and childbirth (Safe Motherhood Initiative, 2003). The average woman in sub Saharan Africa faces a 1:16…

Educating girls and women is a human right which is indispensable to ensure societal health and wellbeing. Female education creates powerful poverty-reducing synergies and yields enormous intergenerational gains (Mercy Tembon and Lucia Fort, 2008). Literacy of women is an important key to improving health, nutrition and education in the family and to empowering women to participate in decision making in society (Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 1995). Countries with higher levels of…

world to be an infant and to give birth. Haiti has one of the highest rates of infant and under-five mortality in world; one in 14 children die before the age 5. The maternal mortality rate in Haiti is 350 deaths per 100,000 births, where as in the United States it is 12.7 deaths per 100,000 births. This is a major issue because most maternal deaths are preventable as they are often due to eclampsia, sepsis and post-partum hemorrhage. Also, mothers that die in childbirth may be leaving behind…

Nursing, from the perspective of a first-year nursing student, is a profession that is underestimated. Nurses are the backbone of all health care facilities; without them, quality of care would greatly decrease. Through the influence of maternal figures in my family, along with an inherent interest in health care and a strong desire to care for others, I was drawn to the profession of nursing. However, a nurse requires more than merely an interest and the desire to care for others. During my…

Public Health Solutions (PHS) is one of the country's largest public health institutes and one of New York's leading non-profit organizations. It was founded in 1957 and since then has been leading the quest for innovation, better outcomes, and reduced disparities in public health for more than 50 years. The Public Health Solutions improves the health of individuals, families, and communities across a remarkable range of areas such as nutrition, reproductive health, maternal and Infant…

Personal Definition of health and health practices Damu Sherpa Culture, Health, and Lifestyle Rutgers University- Newark February 06, 2017 Abstract Health is a well being of physical health, mental health, emotional health, and mental health. Despite the technological advances, there are still challenges in improving the health of the patients. It is important for people to be knowledgeable about the concept of health and instilling positive behaviors and in their life to maintain their…

Somali immigrants in the US have low levels of preventative health care utilization. Women, in particular lack utilization of reproductive health and has had a negative impact for women directly, and for their children, families and the community as a whole. (Beardin, 2014) The primary health care concern that will be addressed in this paper is regarding the culturally incompetent reproductive health care the Somali women are facing. In Somalia, one out of every 12 women die due to…

financial assistance to the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS), along with being provided with funding from Irish Aid for nutritional based purposes. The aim was to create and implement nutritional programs, which in turn would reduce anaemia in mothers and children, to combat the cause and cost of…