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 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. …
A practical guide to preventing problems in anaesthesia during labor, this text offers unique insights into real-life cases, covering topics such as physiology, pharmacology and organisational factors.
A practical guide to preventing problems in anaesthesia during labor, this text offers unique insights into real-life cases, covering topics such as physiology, pharmacology and organisational factors.
"Documenting Death is a gripping ethnographic account of the deaths of pregnant women in a hospital in a low-resource setting in Tanzania. Through an exploration of everyday ethics and care practices on a local maternity ward, anthropologist Adrienne E. Strong untangles the reas…
gelişmekte olan ülkelerdeki anne ölüm oranının gelişmiş ülkelere göre yaklaşık 15 kat daha fazla olduğu bilinmektedir. Anne ölüm oranının en yüksek olduğu ülkelerden biri olan Zimbabwe'de de her 100.000 doğumda 650 kadın yaşamını yitirmektedir. Bu çalışma, sosyal-kültürel faktör…
In Sub-Saharan Africa, women continue to lack sexual/reproductive agency, which is often neglected. Sub-Saharan African women face public health and human rights issues. This study aims to describe the lack of sexual/reproductive agency in Sub-Saharan Africa, through the followi…
Background: The char population of Northern Bangladesh has limited access to maternal and newborn care, and little is known of their current practices. Methods: We surveyed men and women in the chars regarding their knowledge, attitudes and practices in maternal and newborn care…
Background. Afghanistan has one of the highest maternal mortality ratios in the world. Studies suggest that many maternal deaths may be prevented via skilled health care interventions. Although maternal health service availability has improved since 2001, utilization of skilled …
Background GDP per capita is arguably the single most predictive determinant of health at the national level, yet such a measure fails to capture the complexity of wealth (and thus health) distribution within a population. Health at the individual level has been shown to be asso…
Although efforts have been made towards improving the health of children across the globe with notable results, neonatal tetanus (NNT) remains a major contributor to the neonatal death rates in Nigeria. This problem calls for a concerted effort by the government to achieve the r…
Globally, more than 350 000 women die annually from complications during pregnancy and childbirth (UNFPA, 2011). Nearly 99% of these, according to World Health Organization (WHO) trends (2010) occur in the developing world outside of a hospital setting with limited resources inc…
Why life-threatening obstetric complications occur more often in some societies and not others is key to understanding the substantial variation in maternal mortality levels among poor countries. Afghan women in the mountainous region of Badakshan suffer the highest maternal mor…
