The main issue that was talked about throughout chapter 6-8 was obstructed labor and the lack of medical care during child birth. To sum that up, we would call it maternal mortality.
SCALE:
-In 2000 worldwide, 529,000 deaths occurred due to maternal mortality.
-Women in Africa have a 1-in-20 chance of surviving pregnancy. In many other countries the risks are higher, like 1-in-10.
- For everyone woman that dies from obstructed pregnancies, approx. 30 more suffer injuries, infections, and disabilities.
-Most maternal mortality happens in Africa.
Some causes of maternal mortality:
-Hemorrhage, sepsis (very severe infection), unsafe abortions(13% worldwide), pre-eclampsia and eclampsia, prolonged or obstructed labor.
- Major issues would be: severe bleeding, infections, hypertensive disorders, an obstructed labor.
Prevention:
-74% of maternal mortality can be prevented if all women has access to interventions from preventing or treating pregnancy.
-Poverty, gender, lack of information, weak health system, lack of political commitment, cultural barriers are things that can be averted.
-Access to family planning and safe abortion.
-No skilled heath worker during the pregnancy.
-No services in their areas.
-They cannot afford the services provided.
-Not using the serviced because they don’t like how they are ran.
-Services not delivering high-quality care.
Organization:
MPS- Making Pregnancy Safer
WHO- World Health Organization
It is not a right to be healthy, but it is a right to have services or facilities, good and conditions that promote and protect the highest standard of health.
- Tiffany Beaulieu
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