Sentences with phrase «about maternal mortality»

It is for this reason that SPUC has launched The Mayisha Campaign (Mayisha meaning Life in Swahili) to raise awareness about maternal mortality, dispel the myths put about by abortion groups and lobby the Department for International Development to adopt an ethical foreign policy which respects the lives of both mothers and their babies.

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In the District of Columbia, concerns about the high maternal mortality rate — in 2014, it stood at about 40.7 deaths per 100,000 births, according to the analysis by United Health Foundation, substantially exceeding the U.S. rate and those of neighboring Virginia and Maryland — have periodically sparked talk of a review committee, but not enough to push a measure through.

Commit this Advent season to educating yourself (or your faith community) about a particular pervasive injustice — mass incarceration, human trafficking, child brides, infant & maternal mortality, violence against women, etc..

It's conclusions about safety of cytotec use for induction of full - term labor: «There was no difference in serious neonatal or maternal mortality between women receiving misoprostol and women who received prostaglandin E2 or oxytocin; however, most studies were underpowered for this assessment.»

The study is underpowered to detect a difference in maternal mortality between home and hospital, therefore, no conclusion can be drawn about the safety of homebirth.

Although it may feel morbid to think about death when you are about to celebrate life, maternal mortality is still a very real possibility.

*** *** *** · The maternal mortality rate is about 21 per 100,000 live births.

In fact, if one considered just three factors (maternal education, maternal prenatal alcohol or tobacco, and marital status) one could predict to a high degree postneonatal mortality: children born to unmarried women with lower education and evidence of prenatal drug use had a postneonatal mortality of about 30 per 1000 live births (similar to Ivory Coast); children born to women with none of these risk factors had a postneonatal mortality of about 2 per 1000 live births (similar to Norway); that is, children in this latter category almost never die despite evidence from PRAMS surveys that they are as likely to co-sleep with their parents.

France an the Netherlands have different demographics and comparing neonatal mortality tells you something about maternal health and race, but it doesn't tell you much about the quality of the birth attendant.

Final statement, no one here has mentioned anything about infant and maternal mortality prior to modern obstetrical care.

Another study from Denmark, which was based on prospective data about maternal alcohol use, also found a significant relationship between maternal binge drinking and postneonatal infant mortality, including SIDS.219

Other proposed bills would require the city to provide free diapers at certain social services buildings; allow inmates in city jails to choose the gender of their doctor; report more details about unlicensed child care centers and maternal mortality; and assess the accessibility of doulas to pregnant people around the city.

The risk of maternal mortality has remained about three to four times higher among black women than white women during the past six decades.

One of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals is to bring about a 75 % reduction in the maternal mortality ratio.

Boston, MA About Blog The Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF)-- a project of the Women and Health Initiative at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health — works to create a strong, well - informed and integrated community of individuals around the globe focused on ending preventable maternal mortality and morbidity woMaternal Health Task Force (MHTF)-- a project of the Women and Health Initiative at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health — works to create a strong, well - informed and integrated community of individuals around the globe focused on ending preventable maternal mortality and morbidity womaternal mortality and morbidity worldwide.

Boston, MA About Blog The Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF)-- a project of the Women and Health Initiative at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health — works to create a strong, well - informed and integrated community of individuals around the globe focused on ending preventable maternal mortality and morbidity woMaternal Health Task Force (MHTF)-- a project of the Women and Health Initiative at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health — works to create a strong, well - informed and integrated community of individuals around the globe focused on ending preventable maternal mortality and morbidity womaternal mortality and morbidity worldwide.

Boston, MA About Blog The Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF)-- a project of the Women and Health Initiative at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health — works to create a strong, well - informed and integrated community of individuals around the globe focused on ending preventable maternal mortality and morbidity woMaternal Health Task Force (MHTF)-- a project of the Women and Health Initiative at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health — works to create a strong, well - informed and integrated community of individuals around the globe focused on ending preventable maternal mortality and morbidity womaternal mortality and morbidity worldwide.