However, maternal health care has dragged behind other health statistics (UNDP, 2015). Millennium Development Goal [MDG] six: improve maternal health will be discussed to explore the issues in the context of Ethiopia. With primary focus on maternal health, it will be argued that low rate of utilizing healthcare facilities with skilled healthcare providers affecting maternal health in Ethiopia. Several key factors which affecting healthcare utilization including educational status, healthcare facilities availability, economic status, and traditional practice in Ethiopia will be explored in the…
Receiving good prenatal care is extremely important for an expecting mother. The prenatal period has a great impact on the newborn's health. Low birth weight is a problem among a certain population of newborns. It is crucial to understand the conditions in poverty and its affects on birth weights in infants.…
Each country has a different procedure when it comes to their health care and their care with pre and postnatal. Some countries can spend a great amount of money on their health care (such as the United States) but still might not have the best health care in the world. Others have special arrangements that new mothers and infants can go through to make sure that they start off their life in a good and healthy environment. In this paper I am going to compare and contrast the infant health care and the overall prenatal care in the United States and South Korea by referencing multiple articles and textbooks that focus on this subject. Both countries have various ways in which they handle their health system and the care of their newborns. There are many factors that determine the health of a newborn such as the nutrition that the soon to be mother consumes, the environment that the mother and the child live in, and the hospital that the child is born in. Throughout the years each of these countries have been putting time and money into their health system with the goal of having the most outstanding health care system in the world. Their progress can be recorded in many different ways which will be discussed within this paper. Also the United States and South Korea both have very different systems when dealing with prenatal and infant care.…
Poverty affect’s infant’s health in terms of epidemiological issues specifically related to low birth weight (LBW). LBW is significantly a problem in America. Those living in poverty are most prevalent for health problems due to minimal medical and financial resources. Living in poverty is not having the same benefits as those with a steady household income. The U.S. is one of the many countries that contributors to infant immaturity. Not only are these newborns but too early, but they are remarkably premature, weighing less than 2 pounds and 4 ounces at birth. The cause of their early arrival is not entirely due to teen pregnancy, poor maternal nutrition, infectious disease, cigarette smoking, drug abuse-or alcohol- even though these are…
taHeavy drinking by pregnant women can be devastating to offspring. Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) are a cluster of abnormalities and problems that appear in the offspring of mothers who drink alcohol heavily during pregnancy. The abnormalities include facial deformities and defective limbs, face, and heart (Klingenberg & others, 2010). Most children with FASD have learning problems and many are below average in intelligence with some that are mentally retarded (Dalen & others, 2009). Recent studies revealed that children and adults with FASD have impaired memory development (Coles & others, 2010; Pei & others, 2008). Another recent study found that children with FASD have impaired math ability linked to multiple regions of the brain (Lebel & others, 2010). Although many mothers of FASD infants are heavy drinkers, many mothers who are heavy drinkers do not have children with FASD or have one child with FASD and other children who do not have it.…
Britain has the iowest breastfeeding rate of ali countries in Europe; it is no longer the cuiturai norm in…
The country’s 2015 Maternal Mortality Reduction target of 52 poses a huge challenge not just to government but to every stakeholder in health. The Department of Health as the leader in health, has initiated the implementation of health reforms for the rapid reduction of maternal and neonatal mortality. More than the implementation of evidence-based health interventions like immunizations, micronutrient supplementation, prenatal care, advocacy for family planning and breastfeeding, it is strongly supporting the deployment of Community Health Teams (CHTs) tasked to help families assess their conditions, identify problems and implement solutions.…
Although the United States spends billions of dollars annually in healthcare, maternal and infant mortality is still one of the highest in the world compared to forty-nine other countries. This websites focuses specifically on reproductive justice. The information contained in this article is important to my research and provides me with important data on mortality for both maternal and infant health. They exam the rights and risk in reproductive care, related issues and some promising policies that can alter or minimize the risk of mortality to mother and child.…
Many times, mothers have their pregnancies terminated by natural causes that could have been prevented if medical facilities were adequate, so this means that the developing child was also affected. In Congo 800,000 women are living with fistula, a disabling condition often caused by problems in childbirth; the number grows by 20,000 each year. Effects of why the mothers and child have bad conditions can include the fact that they have a food shortage and cannot feed their developing fetus, how poverty affects the income of each person and unhygienic/unsanitary things like water. According to Dr. De Bernis, he says, “Although it may not be their fault for the occurrence of poverty, it is some people's own individual responsibility for not having health insurance.” But, because of the lack of accessible health care with little to none hospitals, that provide proper health care, the number of diseases and bad health problems are affecting both the mothers and the young children. In conclusion, in poor African countries such as Congo and Uganda do not have the health care they need when women are pregnant, whether it is a disease from unhygienic water, or if it is from…
This article is aimed at demonstrating the effectiveness of applying community health strategies in delivering community based maternal and newborn health care in Kenya and Sierra Leon.…
Caughey, A., Cheng, Y., Doss, A., Nicholson, J., Rosenstein, N., & Snowden, J. (2012). The…
Infant Mortality Rate Indian Public Health Standards Intra Uterine Contraceptive Device Intra Uterine Device Jansankhya Sthirtha Kosh Janani Suraksha Yojana Lady Health Visitor Mother and Child Tracking System Monitoring and Evaluation Monitoring, Information & Evaluation System Management Information System Maternal Mortality Ratio Minimum Needs…
The study was made up of 51 female participants from Africa living in Ireland. The women in the sample originated from 12 countries of the African continent, Algeria(1), Angola(2), Cameroon(4), cote d’Lvoire(1), Democratic Republic of the Congo(4), Liberia(1), Nigeria(32), Sudan(1), South Africa(1), Sierra Leone(1), Uganda(1), and Zimbabwe(1). The participants were recruited in the outpatient and social work department and ante natal and post natal wards of the hospital. The sample inclusion criteria included pregnant or recently delivered women who had arrived in Ireland in the past 10 years, were born in Africa and were at least 18 years of age. The interviews lasted between 20 minutes to 2 hours. Each participant was interviewed individually. A questionnaire was presented to each participant, the questionnaire focused on experiences in pregnancy, satisfaction with services at the hospital, integration into Irish society and demographic background. The women were given a 10euro gift voucher as a gesture of thanks.…
• Maternal and child health: The low maternal mortality rate is due to excellent maternal health…
To provide the needed premium contribution of an enrolled women who are about to give birth and of those critical poor patients identified in our provincial/ city hospitals through the Point of Care enrollment;…