Health of women during pregnancy, child birth, and the postpartum period
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Maternal health is the health of women during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. In most cases, maternal health encompasses the health care dimensions of family planning, preconception, prenatal, and postnatal care in order to ensure a positive and fulfilling experience. In other cases, maternal health can reduce maternal morbidity and mortality.[1] Maternal health revolves around the health and wellness of pregnant women, particularly when they are pregnant, at the time they give birth, and during child-raising. WHO has indicated that even though motherhood has been considered as a fulfilling natural experience that is emotional to the mother, a high percentage of women develop health problems and sometimes even die.[2] Because of this, there is a need to invest in the health of women. The investment can be achieved in different ways, among the main ones being subsidizing the healthcare cost, education on maternal health, encouraging effective family planning, and ensuring progressive check up on the health of women with children.[3] Maternal morbidity and mortality particularly affects women of color and women living in low and lower-middle income countries.[4][5]
Maternal death or maternal mortality is defined in slightly different ways by several different health organizations. The World Health Organization (WHO)...
Maternalhealth outcomes differ significantly between racial groups within the United States. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists...
Health in Indonesia is affected by a number of factors. Indonesia has over 26,000 health care facilities; 2,000 hospitals, 9,000 community health centres...
Black maternal mortality in the United States refers to the death of women, specifically those who identify as Black or African American, during or after...
Maternal oral health has been shown to affect the well-being of both the expectant mother and her unborn fetus. The 2000 Surgeon's General Report stressed...
countries, has high maternal mortality ratio at 153 per 100,000 live births.According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a maternal death is the death...
health practitioner and the co-founder and executive director of the Black Mamas Matter Alliance, an organization which focuses on improving maternal...
related with different areas of health. One of the targets target 3.1 is a target to achieve a reduction of global maternal mortality ratio to less than...
global targets for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (RMNCAH) targets to reach a maternal mortality rate (MMR) of 70 per 100...
been large for gestational age. Large birth weight can be caused by maternalhealth issues such as gestational diabetes and obesity. Large birth weight...
Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP) undertook a collaborative initiative—"Building U.S. Capacity to Review and Prevent Maternal Deaths"—...
The main aspects of maternalhealth are prenatal care, post-natal care, family planning and preconception. Rwanda has successfully institutionalised results-based...
Maternalhealth in Angola is a very complicated issue. In the Sub-Saharan region of Africa where Angola is located, poor maternalhealth has been an ongoing...
birth-timing and limiting family size. Other reasons reported include maternalhealth, an inability to afford a child, domestic violence, lack of support...
halved between 1992–93 and 2000" (PDF). World Health Organization. Retrieved 27 March 2014. "Maternal mortality ratio (modeled estimate, per 100,000...
humanitarian organization CARE and has since become their Advocate for MaternalHealth. She is also an Ambassador for Product Red. After suffering complications...
of sickness or poverty. Maternalhealth care in particular has improved significantly over the past 10 years, with the maternal mortality ratio dropping...
Maternal Quality Care Collaborative; Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Division; Center for Family Health; California Department of Public Health...
in antenatal health education services on maternalhealth practices in urban Nepal: results from a randomized controlled trial". Health Education Research...
Maternal mortality in India is the maternal death of a woman in India during pregnancy or after pregnancy, including post-abortion or post-birth periods...
in Data (using World Health Organization definition): "The maternal mortality ratio (MMR) is defined as the number of maternal deaths during a given...
"The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and perinatal health: a scoping review". Reproductive Health. 18 (1): 10. doi:10.1186/s12978-021-01070-6...
Population Fund". www.unfpa.org. Retrieved 2017-09-08. "Maternal mortality country profiles". World Health Organization. Retrieved 2017-09-08. "UNFPA Botswana...
obstetric care, family planning, and other maternalhealth topics, in order to enhance the links between modern health care services and the community, and...
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