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Unacceptably high maternal deaths
Too many deficits in the health system produces a high level of maternal deaths. The lack of active surveillance of the drama derives not know where changes are needed and that effective policy decisions.
Data recently released by the Ministry of Health of the Nation indicate that maternal mortality ratio increased from 4 per 10,000 live births in 2008 to 5.5 in 2009. This means that in the country more than 114 women died from causes related to pregnancy, abortion, childbirth or puerperium.
The complications of unsafe abortions remain the leading cause of maternal death specific. These new figures further away to Argentina in the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals. A very alarming news.
The chain of events that lead to these deaths is evaluated only in some provinces and in general, there is no systematic, standardized analysis of these deaths. Maternal morbidity severe (life-threatening situations that lead to death) is not regularly assessed, and data collection instruments are often not validated. Moreover, the recommendations of these tests do not translate into changes in health systems and services. Read the rest of this entry »
Breastfeeding after birth
Gradually increase the number of mothers who choose to provide their children with breastfeeding after birth, experts suggest that beginning breastfeeding within half an hour of birth offers numerous benefits to the mother and baby.
Other times we talked about the benefits of breastfeeding, thanks to her narrow emotional ties, improve baby’s immune system and is more protected against the disease, get specific nutrients that allow you to develop properly and would not receive by artificial feeding, improves lung capacity , in short, breast milk is the best food that can be given to the newborn.
But what is not talked about the importance of providing early lactation, ie, breast-feeding after birth . It tells Maria Dolores Sanchez, director of integrated area of Gynecology, Hospital de Poniente, explains that up to 75% of babies born in hospital are breastfed in the first days after birth. This figure is the result of awareness campaigns and promoting breast feeding that have been conducted in recent years.
We want to highlight a research that took place a couple of years in the Hospital Valme (Sevilla), the experts came to the conclusion that breastfeeding the baby was born half an hour later helped to extend the period of lactation provided by the mother up in about 90 days. He also stressed that this action favoring a rise in milk more quickly and the mother became more confident in their ability to breastfeed the baby. Read the rest of this entry »
Inadequate attention to maternal and reproductive health
The attention to maternal and reproductive health worldwide is often poor and inaccessible, however, many governments are not doing enough to respond to complaints and identify problems, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch presented a summary of their reports on issues related to reproductive health, with views of the International Day of Action for Women’s Health, 28 May 2010.
The ten-page summary, “” unaccountable: Addressing Reproductive Health Care Gaps, “(” Irresponsible: Addressing gaps in reproductive health care “), illustrates the lack of accountability of the health system in Asia, Latin America , Africa, America and Europe. The accountability is an important issue of global initiatives to improve maternal health, including those related to the Millennium Development Goals United Nations and the G-8 summit of 2010.
“Governments have long promised to reduce maternal deaths and improve reproductive health care,” said Janet Walsh, deputy director of Women’s Rights at Human Rights Watch. “However, many of them are not even taking basic steps such as allowing patients to file complaints, responding to complaints, establish medical standards and keep track of births and deaths,” he added.
In interviews around the world, hundreds of women and girls have described their attempts to receive reproductive health care as an obstacle course. There are logistical barriers, cultural and financial services and information for and discrimination and health care providers abusive that stand in your way.
Resources and Aid
The resources allocated by multilateral aid and, above all, bilateral reproductive health are the ones that have increased since 1990. The measures for the improvement of maternal receive 40% of total health aid.
Most of these resources have been devoted to reproductive health care and family planning, but above all to combat sexually transmitted diseases, especially HIV / AIDS, which has meant that the other health areas has just had an increase in their funds.
Therefore, from several international bodies, aims to provide a comprehensive manner the essential services of reproductive health and HIV / AIDS to achieve greater efficiency, while saving costs.
Maternal Health In the World Today
Despite the global reduction, a woman dies every minute in the world’s poorest countries as a result of complications during pregnancy or childbirth (half a million women a year).
Alongside them there are ten million more who suffer injuries, infections and other complications associated with pregnancy.
The United Nations reports indicate that sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia account for 85% of maternal deaths worldwide.
For all developing countries, there are 450 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, compared with 14 occurring in developed countries.
Health interventions in childbirth or during pregnancy have also increased in all regions, showing that they can reduce maternal mortality, but but its availability has to be larger in order to reach the target for 2015.
Abortion and Health of Pregnant Women
Many of the voices calling for the life of an unborn seem to ignore the risk to life and health that every pregnancy carries with women. In our country, maternal mortality has not declined in 30 years. 30% of deaths are from clandestine abortions. The other 70% is delivered in multiple diseases and birth of the third quarter mainly affecting healthy women who began the pregnancy, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, postpartum hemorrhage.
Each woman risks her life and health with each pregnancy, the desire to bring another life into the world. Nobody should be forced to hazard their lives to bring another to the world. Those who raise their voices saying that giving a child for adoption, do not know if arriegrÃan their lives so easily. We see defenderese with all legal means diponsibles when sentenced to prison for pedophilia, for example .. and just about lose my freedom!
Global Study of Preterm Birth
The World Health Organization has recently published a study which raised a number of objectives, such as evaluating the incidence of preterm birth and knows their distribution in the world to develop strategies for prevention and action.
Global prematurity rates, regional distribution and assessment strategies have been the targets they have set the research team led by Stacy Beck in the study has been published by WHO in its official gazette the name of “Impact World of preterm birth: systematic review of maternal morbidity and mortality. ”
To accomplish this were based on data on maternal mortality and morbidity between 1997 and 2002 officers also carried out a widespread search which extended the period until the year 2007, with missing data and models were found by multiple regressions specific to each location.
A 9.6% of premature births registered in 2005, of which 85% of those between Africa and Asia, 7% in the Caribbean and Latin America and 4% in both Europe and North America, excluding Mexico. Read the rest of this entry »