Maternal Health

News comment and features on maternal health and ways to improve the health of mothers including during pregnancy and childbirth in the developing world.

Maternal health. Policy work can help accelerate gains in maternal health by strengthening health systems and improving access to high-quality maternal health services before during and after birth. Maternal and Child Health Workforce professional development. Maternal health is the health of women during pregnancy childbirth and the postpartum periodIt encompasses the health care dimensions of family planning preconception prenatal and postnatal care in order to ensure a positive and fulfilling experience in most cases and reduce maternal morbidity and mortality in other cases.

Considerable advances in maternal health have been made in the Region of the Americas. Embassy of Uganda we have launched a comprehensive Antenatal Education Center AEC to train over 700 women their male partners and Village Health Teams VHTS. Maternal and Child Health Service resources.

So we also work with community leaders women and health workers to understand and address the reasons for the high maternal death rate. Implementation of MCH programs. Newborn health is the babies first month of life.

Despite this progress in achieving maternal health targets has been slow with 90 percent of countries not on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goal for maternal health MDG 5. Documents that support maternal and child health nurses and MCH services in clinical practice and service delivery. MCH nurses are required to undertake Continuing Professional Development CPD annually.

Many people think it means maternal healthcare doctors midwives trained birth attendants hospitals and clinics and while thats essential it doesnt define maternal health. Women must also be able to exercise control over their bodies and live within families that support their rights to a healthy life free from violence. Peer-reviewed papers address MCH practice policy and research exploring such topics as MCH epidemiology demography and health status assessment.

Most of these deaths can be avoided as the necessary medical interventions exist and are well known. The United States US fares worse in preventing pregnancy-related deaths than most other developed nations. 10 facts on maternal health.