Progress In Global Maternal Health Essay

Epidemiology - Person, Place and Time Epidemiology -- Person, Place, Time

Identify the specific goal you have chosen, describe it in detail, and discuss why you chose to focus on this goal and how it related to population health, both locally and globally.

The specific goal I have chosen is improvement of maternal health. I chose to focus on this goal because reproductive health is an issue for most women whether they live in developed or developing countries -- and because reproductive health is an issue over which the medical and healthcare communities can have relatively high degrees of influence. Reproductive health is inextricably related to income at levels of a household, a community, and a nation. The figures representing women who died during pregnancy or childbirth are high (roughly 289,000 globally in 2013), but they are down by about 45% from 1990 levels ("MDG 5," 2014). This is a clear indicator that progress is being made in this area. Moreover, a relation exists between a lack of effective methods of contraception and maternal deaths ("MDG 5," 2014). That is to say, a focus on contraception can impact the...

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While there are enormous cultural-structural and social issues that must also be addressed to make maternal care more equitable, less comprehensive and expensive strategies can have important effects. For instance, in Tanzania, the Kigoma Regional Hospital reduced maternal death in childbirth by 80% over a 4-year period through the implementation of simple, low-cost interventions that radically improved the care provided to women giving birth in the hospital (Coeytaux, 2010). Two important strategies to save women's lives are to make abortion legal and affordable, and to make contraceptives legal and affordable. Consider that, abortion is legal in Tunisia and an integral part of the national family-planning program, but its neighbor Algeria has not (Coeytaux, 2010). Both countries have birth practices and contraceptive use that are similar (Coeytaux, 2010). But women in Algeria are twice as likely to die from complications of pregnancy than are Tunisian women; this difference is attributed to access to safe abortions (Coeytaux, 2010).
3.How do some of the "Indices of Health Disparities" listed on page 11 of your text relate to the MDG you have chosen?

Very strong relations can be seen between the indices of health disparities and the…

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References

Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (n.d). Principles of epidemiology in public health practice (3rd ed.). Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Coeytaux, F., Bingham, D., & Langer, A. (2010). Reducing Maternal Mortality: A Global Imperative. Association of Reproductive Health Professionals. Retrieved from http://www.arhp.org/publications-and-resources/contraception-journal/february-2011

MDG 5: Improve maternal health. (2014).

Trends in Maternal Mortality 1990-2008 . Estimates developed by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and the World Bank. (September 2010). Retrieved from http://www.unfpa.org/webdav/site/global/shared/documents/publications/2010/trends_matmortality90-08.pdf
World Conference on Social Determinants of Health. (2014). World Health Organization (WHO). Retreived from http://www.who.int/sdhconference/background/news/facts/en/


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