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Determinants of Maternal Mortality
Be sure to complete the entire worksheet (Parts 1-4).
Maternal Mortality Ratio:
Go to the World Health Organization website link, "Cause-Specific Mortality and Morbidity: Maternal Mortality Ratio Data by Country," listed in this week's Learning Resources.
Select five different countries, representing different geographical regions.
Download data of these countries (or write them up in an Excel sheet).
Draw a time series chart of maternal mortality ratios of these countries.
Refer to the "Time Series Chart Example" document in this week's Learning Resources.
What are your main observations regarding this chart ?
There are two distinct aspects perceived from this chart. For starters, the maternal mortality ratio is greater for low income countries and middle income countries. This is regardless of the fact that the statistics indicated are declining as the years progress. Between the five nations, India indicated the highest decline through the years, followed by Myanmar. Kenya indicated a moderate rate of decline. On the other hand, the maternal mortality ratio was considerably low and indicated stability in the high income nations of France and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Part 2: Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG 5):
Go to the World Health Organization's website link, "Millennium Development...
Click on the title to read more about each indicator. Links will open in a separate window.
Download the data of this indicator for the countries you selected in Part 1.
Draw a time series chart of the indicator among these counties.
Note: Refer to the "Time Series Chart Example" document in this week's Learning Resources.
Question
What are your main observations regarding this chart ?
France has the highest ratio with regard to this Millennium Development Goal 5 indicator. It is followed by Kenya, which is also immediately followed by Myanmar. However, it is imperative to point out that there is no data for this MDG5 indicator for India and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Part 3: Determinants of Maternal Mortality:
Go to the World Health Organization's website link, "Health Equity Monitor Database," listed in this week's Learning Resources.
Click on the "Maternal Health Services" link; then click on the indicator you previously selected in Part 2.
Select one of indicator sets (e.g., place of residence in relation to use of antenatal care).
Download…
Resources or any additional resources.
In general, the inference from the statistics shown in the graphs above is that low income nations and middle income nations have the highest ratios in relation to the five nations selected. On the other hand, the high income and developed nations have the lowest ratios of the indicators with regard to the five nations selected.
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