• Community performance-based financing to improve maternal health outcomes: Experiences from Rwanda (PDF). (wikipedia.org)
  • We assessed the overall performance of care (ie, the ability to produce a positive effect on health outcomes) through standardised mortality ratios. (nih.gov)
  • Potential maternal and infant outcomes from Coronavirus 2019-nCoV (SARS-CoV-2) infecting pregnant women: Lessons from SARS, MERS, and other human coronavirus infections. (britishjournalofmidwifery.com)
  • The Investment Case (IC) was launched by development partners in the Asia-Pacific region with the goal to support in-country implementation and more equitable outcomes for maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH). (biomedcentral.com)
  • It's rewarding to be able to see real-time improvements in health outcomes and to work within the health system to use data to influence policy and decision-making. (ucalgary.ca)
  • Women make up a large part of our workforce and are lagging behind in some health outcomes. (businessgrouphealth.org)
  • The scores for struggle in meeting financial needs were highest in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, pointing to a correlation between poor emotional health outcomes. (businessgrouphealth.org)
  • Electricity was playing a pretty big role in some of the delays that were affecting maternal health outcomes," she said. (zdnet.com)
  • However, the association between IPI and maternal and neonatal outcomes in women whose first delivery was by cesarean delivery is unclear. (biomedcentral.com)
  • It is alarming that the CDC's new report shows that maternal mortality rates continued to rise in the U.S. in 2021, with persistent racial disparities in maternal health outcomes," AAFP President Tochi Iroku-Malize, MD, MPH, said in a statement. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Low socioeconomic status is closely linked to poor child health and development outcomes, as well as increased risk of adverse experiences in early childhood. (bmj.com)
  • Trends in Maternal Mortality 2000 to 2020. (worldbank.org)
  • Closures were implemented in Pakistan from March 2020, affecting provision of reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) services. (who.int)
  • The Human Capital Index, which measures children's future productivity relative to a benchmark of full health and complete education, increased in nearly all sub-Saharan countries from 2010 to 2020 (Chart 1). (imf.org)
  • 2018). Furthermore, sub-Saharan Africa is the only region of the world where the percentage of out-of-school adolescents rose recently, from 35.9 percent in 2018 to 36.6 percent in 2020 (UNESCO, 2021). (imf.org)
  • A total of 1,205 women died of maternal causes in 2021, compared with 861 in 2020 and 754 in 2019, according to the report from Donna Hoyert, PhD, of the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics. (medpagetoday.com)
  • The maternal mortality rate for 2021 was 32.9 deaths per 100,000 live births, compared with a rate of 23.8 in 2020 and 20.1 in 2019. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Between 2012 and 2019, in the North Region, the average maternal mortality ratio was 72.19, but, with the covid-19 pandemic, it increased considerably, being 92.16 in 2020 and 164 in 2021. (bvsalud.org)
  • 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) to 20154-6. (bvsalud.org)
  • Of the 1054 live births during the study period, there were 42(3.9%) near-miss cases and 4(0.3%) maternal deaths . (bvsalud.org)
  • Maternal mortality ratio was 379/100,000 and near-miss-to- mortality ratio was 39/1000 live births . (bvsalud.org)
  • SDG targets # 3.1 and 3.2: reduce maternal mortality to less than 70 per 100,000 live births and neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births by 2030) [ 10 ]. (springer.com)
  • According to the World Bank, Niger has a Maternal Mortality Ration (MMR) of 630 to 100,000 live births. (ipsnews.net)
  • Maternal mortality ratio refers to the number of women who die from pregnancy-related causes during pregnancy or within 42 days of the end of the pregnancy per 100,000 live births. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Maternal Deaths per 100,000 Live Births) 2000-2017. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Millennium Development Goal No. 5-to reduce the maternal mortality ratio by two-thirds in 2015 from 1990 global-average levels of 400 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births-is lagging the most out of eight major initiatives on poverty, health and equality adopted by the U.N. 10 years ago (at the start of the new millennium, hence their name. (womensenews.org)
  • Death rates varied by racial/ethnic groups, with the maternal mortality rate for non-Hispanic Black patients at 69.9 per 100,000 live births, which was 2.6 times the death rate for non-Hispanic white women (26.6 per 100,000). (medpagetoday.com)
  • In an op-ed in the L.A. Times , Jennifer Block further contextualizes last month's surprising news that the U.S. maternal mortality rate rose to 13 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2004. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • That also happened to be the first year since 1977 that the maternal death rate rose above 10 per 100,000 live births. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • There are lessons to be learned from the Ebola epidemic of 2014, when due to the disruption of these services, the number of maternal and neonatal deaths indirectly caused by the epidemic were more than the number of deaths caused by Ebola virus itself (9). (who.int)
  • A mother's perspective of consent for maternal and neonatal COVID-19 testing: can we do more? (britishjournalofmidwifery.com)
  • Interpregnancy interval (IPI) has been linked with several maternal and neonatal adverse events in the general population. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We aimed to investigate the association between IPI after cesarean delivery and the risk of maternal and neonatal adverse events. (biomedcentral.com)
  • GAVI has also provided some support for traditional vaccines, including supporting immunization campaigns and outbreak response for measles (see below), providing one-time grants to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative and the Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus Elimination Initiative, and purchasing pentavalent vaccines, which include the DTP vaccine, a traditional vaccine. (givewell.org)
  • World Health Organization (2018). (wikipedia.org)
  • World Bank, 2018). (imf.org)
  • According to a February 2018 survey by Stop Street Harassment, a nonprofit organization, 81% of U.S. women reported experiencing sexual harassment or assault and 51% of women reported being touched or groped without consent. (chicagotribune.com)
  • But it would be a mistake to view that as the sum total of the world in 2018. (vox.com)
  • This approach is aligned with the evidence based Nurturing Care for Early Childhood Development Framework, launched during the 71st World Health Assembly in May 2018. (bmj.com)
  • The prospective cross-sectional analytical study was conducted at the Obstetrics Unit of Combined Military Hospital , Kharian, Pakistan , from January to June 2019, and comprised cases of severe maternal complications , critical interventions and life -threatening situations. (bvsalud.org)
  • After December 2019, when the first case of the novel 2019 coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) was identified, the associated illness (COVID-19) became a significant international health concern. (britishjournalofmidwifery.com)
  • A novel coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, has been identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness that originated in Wuhan, China, and which has spread to several other countries around the world. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was declared a public health emergency by the World Health Organization on J. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We report the main findings of the WHO Multicountry Survey on Maternal and Newborn Health (WHOMCS), which aimed to assess the burden of complications related to pregnancy, the coverage of key maternal health interventions, and use of the maternal severity index (MSI) in a global network of health facilities. (nih.gov)
  • We regarded coverage of key maternal health interventions as the proportion of the target population who received an indicated intervention (eg, the proportion of women with eclampsia who received magnesium sulphate). (nih.gov)
  • Reported mortality in countries with a high or very high maternal mortality ratio was two-to-three-times higher than that expected for the assessed severity despite a high coverage of essential interventions. (nih.gov)
  • High coverage of essential interventions did not imply reduced maternal mortality in the health-care facilities we studied. (nih.gov)
  • If substantial reductions in maternal mortality are to be achieved, universal coverage of life-saving interventions need to be matched with comprehensive emergency care and overall improvements in the quality of maternal health care. (nih.gov)
  • In an effort to improve access to proven maternal and newborn health interventions, Rwanda implemented a mobile phone (mHealth) monitoring system called RapidSMS. (springer.com)
  • Most of these deaths are preventable with timely access to proven maternal and newborn health interventions [ 1 , 13 ]. (springer.com)
  • Unfortunately, while the knowledge of most of the interventions needed to improve maternal and newborn survival has advanced remarkably since the adoption of the MDGs, healthcare systems in many LMICs do not effectively deliver currently recommended life-saving maternal and newborn health interventions including antenatal and post-natal care [ 1 , 13 ]. (springer.com)
  • To effectively guide health service delivery at a local level, national plans should adopt typologies that reflect the different problems and strategies to scale up key MNCH interventions. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The difficulties inherent in scaling-up proven interventions to reduce maternal, newborn and child mortality will mean that many countries will fail to hit their targets for MDGs 4 & 5 [ 1 , 2 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • I am driven to use data to design, implement and evaluate evidence-based interventions that aim to improve health service delivery and quality of care," she says. (ucalgary.ca)
  • Yet, such data are often a critical basis for health planning and monitoring in countries, in support of efforts to reach all with essential interventions. (bmj.com)
  • Household surveys provide a rich basis for interventions coverage indicators on reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) at the country first administrative level (regions or provinces). (bmj.com)
  • The result was a decrease in coverage of critical health interventions. (paho.org)
  • Before joining the editorial board in November 2021, he worked for 15 years as a news reporter for the Times' California section, covering air quality, climate change, environmental health and other topics. (latimes.com)
  • 5 Countries where women experienced the lowest emotional health were strikingly also countries that had a large amount of political or economic strife in 2021 (i.e. (businessgrouphealth.org)
  • 15 When it comes to seeking care for mental health, a 2021 Oliver Wyman study found that while women were 20% more likely to consider seeking mental health care, men were 12% more likely to actually receive mental health care. (businessgrouphealth.org)
  • Maternal mortality in the U.S. significantly increased in 2021 compared with the previous year, the CDC reported Thursday. (medpagetoday.com)
  • To analyze the behavior of the maternal mortality ratio from 2012 to 2021 in the North Region of Brazil. (bvsalud.org)
  • Roraima presented higher maternal mortality in the pandemic, in February 2021 (705.65). (bvsalud.org)
  • 2021. Covid-19 collaborated with the increase in maternal mortality, highlighting interstate inequalities and vulnerabilities in prenatal care, hospital, and socioeconomic infrastructure in the North Region, especially in Roraima and Amazonas. (bvsalud.org)
  • To make global partners familiar with the Guide for strengthening implementation of home-based records, it was officially launched through two major global gatherings: Quality of Care (QoC) Network Webinar (online, April 20), and International Conference (The International Maternal Newborn Health Conference: IMNHC 2023, Cape Town, May 10) with a total of more than 400 participants from 80 countries. (go.jp)
  • Using World Health Organisation near miss approach to assess preventable maternal morbidity and mortality at a tertiary care hospital. (bvsalud.org)
  • The MSI could be used to assess the performance of health facilities providing care to women with complications related to pregnancy. (nih.gov)
  • Diriba K, Awulachew E, Getu E. The effect of coronavirus infection (SARS-CoV-2, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV) during pregnancy and the possibility of vertical maternal-fetal transmission: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (britishjournalofmidwifery.com)
  • IPS has travelled here with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to visit a school that - on a continent where male involvement in maternal health is not the norm and, in fact, men are oftentimes not present during the duration of the pregnancy or the birthing process due to cultural reasons - is pretty unique. (ipsnews.net)
  • Maternal smoking during pregnancy is an established risk factor for low infant birth weight, but evidence on critical exposure windows and timing of fetal growth restriction is limited. (plos.org)
  • Here we investigate the associations of maternal quitting, reducing, and continuing smoking during pregnancy with longitudinal fetal growth by triangulating evidence from 3 analytical approaches to strengthen causal inference. (plos.org)
  • We analysed data from 8,621 European liveborn singletons in 2 population-based pregnancy cohorts (the Generation R Study, the Netherlands 2002-2006 [ n = 4,682]) and the Born in Bradford study, United Kingdom 2007-2010 [ n = 3,939]) with fetal ultrasound and birth anthropometric measures, parental smoking during pregnancy, and maternal genetic data. (plos.org)
  • A consistent linear dose-dependent association of maternal smoking with fetal growth was observed from the early second trimester onwards, while no major growth deficit was found in women who quit smoking early in pregnancy except for a shorter FL during late gestation. (plos.org)
  • Maternal smoking during pregnancy is an established risk factor for low infant birth weight. (plos.org)
  • We analysed data from 8,621 white European liveborn singletons from 2 population-based pregnancy cohorts to assess the associations of maternal quitting, reducing, and continuing smoking during pregnancy with the longitudinal growth of different fetal parameters (weight, head circumference, femur length, and abdominal circumference). (plos.org)
  • The number of women who die each day of complications from pregnancy, according to the World Health Organization. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Recent U.N. estimates indicate maternal deaths have decreased by 34 percent since 1990, but the annual 2.3 percent decline-less than half the targeted 5.5 percent figure-hasn't dipped fast enough to reduce the number of approximately 1,000 women who die every day from complications in pregnancy and childbirth. (womensenews.org)
  • Maternal death is defined by the World Health Organization as 'the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and the site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management, but not from accidental or incidental causes,'" Hoyert noted. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Unsafe abortions are among the leading causes of maternal mortality worldwide. (amnesty.org)
  • To explore the association of maternal T2D and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) with childhood anthropometry, and the influence of maternal BMI on these associations. (nature.com)
  • To analyze the association of maternal breastfeeding time with the introduction of non-nutritive sucking habits in children attending the Baby Clinic at the Araçatuba College of Dentistry, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita. (bvsalud.org)
  • In May 2012, UNICEF told us that it was seeking to focus on reaching the approximately 20% of children in the developing world who do not receive routine immunizations. (givewell.org)
  • UNICEF is a large diverse organization and we have not investigated how it funds its immunization work or how it prioritizes among its many different activities. (givewell.org)
  • World Health Organization (WHO), United Nation Children's Fund (UNICEF)and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) have recently published a guide to strengthen the implementation of home-based records for maternal, newborn, and child health (the Guide). (go.jp)
  • I am a member of the School of Husbands," Louche says of the informal institution that brings together married men to discuss the gains of reproductive health, family planning and empowerment. (ipsnews.net)
  • Madame Doudou Aissatoo, a midwife in Konni, a town in Niger, tells IPS that it is important to have reproductive health and family planning services readily available because many women walk for miles to come to the health centres. (ipsnews.net)
  • She is also a consultant at the World Health Organization (WHO) and has worked in the department of reproductive health research with WHO in Geneva, Switzerland from in 2015/16 managing large global databases across several key maternal and newborn health indicators. (ucalgary.ca)
  • Actual fertility remains above desired fertility as adolescent girls and women lack fully realized reproductive rights and access to quality, affordable reproductive health care. (imf.org)
  • By abolishing family planning programmes and blocking access to vital sexual and reproductive health services the authorities would be exposing women to serious health risks, and violating their human rights. (amnesty.org)
  • Programs to discourage child marriage and provide sexual and reproductive health education to young people will also be proposed at the meeting. (womensenews.org)
  • Some countries will unveil budget increases for midwives, emergency obstetric care and free health care for pregnant women, said Laura Laski, chief of the United Nations Population Fund's sexual and reproductive health branch. (womensenews.org)
  • Global Health , Health Systems , Maternal Health , Millenium Development Goals , Reproductive Health , Universal Health Coverage by Editor Equity/Equidad - DB . (bvsalud.org)
  • 990,000 (66%) were in the World Health Organization immunization registry system. (cdc.gov)
  • To reinstate routine services, priority actions and key areas include continued provision of family planning services along with uninterrupted immunization campaigns and routine maternal and child services. (who.int)
  • Most infants will likely only need protection from either the maternal RSV vaccine or infant immunization, but not both," the CDC said in a press release. (factcheck.org)
  • However, for example, if a baby is born less than two weeks after maternal immunization, then a doctor may recommend that the baby also receive the infant immunization. (factcheck.org)
  • Because of (a) the strong evidence that expanding access to vaccinations for children in the developing world is an effective way to save lives , and (b) the potential for it to do so cost effectively, we sought to answer the question: what giving opportunities would increase immunization coverage globally? (givewell.org)
  • Globally, considerable improvement in maternal, newborn, and child survival has been registered over the MDG era, with the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) reduced by 45% and under-five mortality reduced by more than half (53%) by 2015 [ 4 ]. (springer.com)
  • Most recently she has worked for the Canadian Red Cross and South Sudan Red Cross as part of a team evaluating a project aimed at improving maternal, newborn and child survival in Gogrial State, South Sudan. (ucalgary.ca)
  • GAVI Alliance ( www.gavialliance.org ) was created in the year 2000 to expand access to new and underused vaccines in the developing world. (givewell.org)
  • Human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) continued to report deaths resulting from abuse in prisons and pretrial detention centers (see section 1.c. (state.gov)
  • The World Health Organization's Partnership on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health-a 260-member global health partnership of U.N. agencies, nongovernmental organizations and foundations-estimates that the annual funding requirement could reach $42 billion by 2015. (womensenews.org)
  • In 2012, the Sixty-fifth World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA65.6, in which it endorsed the comprehensive implementation plan on maternal, infant and young child nutrition. (who.int)
  • A comprehensive implementation plan on maternal, infant and young child nutrition was adopted by the World Health Assembly in 2012 to achieve six global targets by 2025 and ultimately end all forms of malnutrition by 2030. (who.int)
  • At the Sixty-fifth World Health Assembly in 2012, Member States endorsed the Comprehensive implementation plan on maternal, infant and young child nutrition (MIYCN), committing to achieve six global nutrition targets6 by 2025. (who.int)
  • Using interrupted time series design, we estimated the impact of RapidSMS on uptake of maternal and newborn health services including antenatal care (ANC), health facility delivery and vaccination coverage. (springer.com)
  • Greater maternal antenatal BMI was associated with increased anthropometric measures in offspring independent of maternal glycemic status. (nature.com)
  • The year under review, covering the period of July 2015 to June 2016, was a challenging time for public health in the Americas. (paho.org)
  • Survey evidence consistently indicates that few people in rich countries have any clue that the world has taken a happier turn in recent decades - one poll in 2016 found that only 8 percent of US residents knew that global poverty had fallen since 1996. (vox.com)
  • Any amount of child labor is too much child labor, and the world didn't meet the International Labor Organization's goal of eliminating the "worst forms" of child labor by 2016. (vox.com)
  • According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), PPH is responsible for about 25 percent of maternal mortality. (ipsnews.net)
  • Currently, without antibiotic use, up to 16 percent of women develop infections after assisted childbirth and, in the US, 13 percent of maternal deaths are the result of infections, the authors write. (the-scientist.com)
  • During my nursing education, I knew that I wanted to supplement my academic studies with 'hands-on' research in the area of maternal and child health and nutrition. (ucalgary.ca)
  • Over the past two decades, the literature has shown a clear gradient between child health and wealth. (mdpi.com)
  • However, there are still unanswered questions about the main causes of China's rural-urban child health inequality. (mdpi.com)
  • Home-based records are a people-centered tool for ensuring a quality continuum of care for maternal, newborn and child health. (go.jp)
  • Ketha Francisco of the Ministry of Health of Angola described Angola's experience with the pilot implementation of the Maternal and Child Health Handbook according to the structure of the Guide and the lessons learned along with the successful factors that in the Guide indicates. (go.jp)
  • The primary audience for this guideline is health professionals who are responsible for developing national and local health protocols and policies, as well as managers of maternal and child health programmes and policy-makers in all settings. (bvsalud.org)
  • This entry was posted in Equity and tagged Child Health , Global Health , Health Inequality , Maternal Health , Newborn Health by Editor Equity/Equidad - CG . (bvsalud.org)
  • Maternal and Child Health. (bvsalud.org)
  • Added to this, the emergence of the conditions of the population, the capacity of pandemic caused by the new coronavirus the health system to respond to health needs, in (SARS CoV-2), which brought the biggest addition to providing information on the quality public health crisis of the 21st century. (bvsalud.org)
  • Subnational inequalities have received limited attention in the monitoring of progress towards national and global health targets during the past two decades. (bmj.com)
  • In this paper, we show the large subnational inequalities that exist in RMNCH coverage within 39 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, using a composite coverage index which has been used extensively by Countdown to 2030 for Women's, Children's and Adolescent's Health. (bmj.com)
  • This entry was posted in Equity , Information Technology , Research & Science issues and tagged Digital Literacy , eLearning , Global Health , Inequalities by Editor Equity/Equidad - CG . (bvsalud.org)
  • This entry was posted in Equity , Social determinants , Universal health coverage and tagged Equity in Health , Global Health , Noncommunicable Diseases , Sustainable Development Goals by Editor Equity/Equidad - DB . (bvsalud.org)
  • Currently, she's the provincial director of surveillance, research, and analytics at Perinatal Services BC , where she leads maternal and newborn health surveillance activities and uses data to inform and evaluate programs within the province. (ucalgary.ca)
  • In 1996, the Ministry of Public Health of Thailand and Mahidol University, in collaboration with CDC, initiated a randomized, placebo-controlled trial of a simpler and less expensive regimen of ZDV to prevent perinatal HIV transmission. (cdc.gov)
  • We compared results from (1) confounder-adjusted multivariable analyses, (2) a Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis using maternal rs1051730 genotype as an instrument for smoking quantity and ease of quitting, and (3) a negative control analysis comparing maternal and mother's partner's smoking associations. (plos.org)
  • Bear in mind, this GYN had cared for me since I was 14, had been my mother's doctor as well and previously praised me on my good physical condition and health (I am a 5K runner and semi-vegitarian). (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • Although vacuum cups appeared to be less risky for the mother's health, they come with their own set of concerns, the researchers said. (sciencedaily.com)
  • To determine frequency of severe maternal complications , maternal near-miss cases and maternal deaths in obstetric patients in a tertiary care setting. (bvsalud.org)
  • Maternal death statistics include direct obstetric and indirect causes. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Severe maternal outcome ratio, maternal near-miss, maternal mortality ratio, near-miss-to- mortality ratio and the mortality index were calculated. (bvsalud.org)
  • Severe maternal outcome ratio was 4.36 (42+4/1054). (bvsalud.org)
  • The rapid devastation and global health catastrophe caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is a wake-up call for the world to acknowledge the collective vulnerability of humans to infection across the globe. (who.int)
  • As governments gained more experience in responding to the changes of the pandemic and the knowledge on the transmissibility of the virus and effective control and treatment measures was readily available, national and local actions to ensure the continuity of health services gradually increased, in particular those for women, mothers, children, adolescents and older people. (paho.org)
  • The COVID-19 pandemic continues to place a substantial burden on many countries' mental health systems, many of which were under-resourced prior to the pandemic. (paho.org)
  • He is particularly interested in global health and pandemic prevention, anti-poverty efforts, economic policy and theory, and conflicts about the right way to do philanthropy. (vox.com)
  • Although provisional data released last year by the Government Accountability Office showed a spike in maternal death rates due in large part to the COVID-19 pandemic, "confirmation of a roughly 40% increase in preventable deaths compared to a year prior is stunning news," she said. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Caesarean sections, which now account for a staggering almost 30 percent of all births, and increasing maternal obesity, which can lead to more complications, are cited as probable reasons for the increase. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • Indeed, maternal ILC2s promote fetal growth and protect against fetal mortality upon systemic endotoxin challenge. (elifesciences.org)
  • Understanding when and which parameters of fetal growth are affected by different smoking behaviours is important for strengthening and focusing clinical and public health guidelines. (plos.org)
  • Assembly endorsed the goal of eliminating viral hepatitis as chronic HBV infections are acquired through mother-to-child a public health threat by 2030, including the elimination of transmission (MTCT) or during early childhood, and approxi- mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of HBV, documented mately two thirds of these infections occur in AFR. (cdc.gov)
  • The approach is aimed at government officials involved in the development, design and implementation of public health nutrition policies and programmes. (who.int)
  • The PEHSUs provide children's environmental health education and consultation for health professionals, public health professionals, and others. (cdc.gov)
  • 2005. Mercury exposure: medical and public health issues. (cdc.gov)
  • An estimated 4.3 million people died in 2012 as a result of indoor air pollution, mostly from cooking inside with coal or wood stoves in developing countries, according to the report by the public health agency of the United Nations. (latimes.com)
  • The risks from air pollution are now far greater than previously thought or understood, particularly for heart disease and strokes," said Maria Neira, the agency's public health and environment director. (latimes.com)
  • 1 Institute of Global Public Health, University of Manitoba, Canada. (who.int)
  • 2 Centre for Global Public Health, Islamabad, Pakistan. (who.int)
  • At Alberta Health Services (AHS) from 2008 to 2015, she was a research assistant at the Alberta Cancer Board (to 2011) and a public health nurse for AHS South Calgary Health Centre and Rural South covering Okotoks, High River and Black Diamond (2010-2015). (ucalgary.ca)
  • An obstetrician-gynecologist by training, Laura Stachel became interested in maternal mortality when she began attending the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley . (zdnet.com)
  • The WHO classifies violence against women as "a major public health problem and a violation of women's human rights. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Current conservation policies often clash with public health initiatives in the developing world but they get little attention. (acsh.org)
  • These measures contributed greatly to the public health miracle that was mainly experienced by OECD-countries. (acsh.org)
  • Little attention has been paid to water conservation as an overriding principle and its adverse public health repercussions. (acsh.org)
  • Since then this manuscript has been re-edited and further improved and re-submitted to the Lancet, the Journal of American Medical Association, American Journal of Public Health, Plos Medicine, BMC Public Health, one Royal Society journal, and a couple of smaller journals. (acsh.org)
  • It's a wonderful plan, but if the funding doesn't show up and it isn't implemented, then it doesn't help much,' said Mary Anne Mercer, director of the Timor-Leste program for Health Alliance International, a Seattle-based international public health organization. (womensenews.org)
  • The data in the report "send a resounding message that maternal health and evidence‐based efforts to eliminate racial health inequities need to be, and remain, a top public health priority," said Iffath Abbasi Hoskins, MD, president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), in a statement. (medpagetoday.com)
  • We strongly urge authors submitting articles related to this emergency to BMC journals to share underlying interim and final research datasets relating to the outbreak as rapidly and widely as possible, including with public health and research communities and the WHO. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This entry was posted in Universal health coverage and tagged Global Health , Public Health , Sustainable Development Goals by Editor Equity/Equidad - CG . (bvsalud.org)
  • The large amounts of opioids and the emergence of increasingly potent illicitly manufactured synthetic opioids circulating in the unregulated drug supply in North America and Europe are fueling not only the ongoing public health crisis of overdose deaths but also raise the risk of another type of disaster: deliberate opioid release with the intention to cause mass harm. (cdc.gov)
  • The main aspects of maternal health are prenatal care, post-natal care, family planning and preconception. (wikipedia.org)
  • Disparities by race and ethnicity in maternal mortality are significant worldwide. (msdmanuals.com)
  • These data reinforce the urgent need for achieving birth equity and addressing health disparities among Black, Indigenous and other pregnant people of color. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Nonetheless, the CDC's latest report confirms that additional action is needed to stem the rise in maternal deaths and mitigate maternal health disparities. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Health care professionals may contact their regional PEHSU site for clinical advice. (cdc.gov)
  • Those issues should be addressed directly with your health care provider. (cdc.gov)
  • ACOEM is the nation's largest medical society dedicated to promoting the health of workers through preventive medicine, clinical care, research, and education. (cdc.gov)
  • Pregnant women and children in low- and middle-income countries, are likely to face the largest impact owing to disruption of primary health care and essential maternal and newborn services (7). (who.int)
  • Women in health care careers experienced higher levels of burnout relative to men and reported missing 1 or more days of work due to burnout, stress or mental health issues. (businessgrouphealth.org)
  • Assess global trends, noting countries that have a less robust clinical infrastructure and weak support for women in the workforce and identify the environmental barriers women face in accessing mental health care. (businessgrouphealth.org)
  • An obstetrician-gynecologist by training, Laura Stachel launched WE CARE Solar in an effort to decrease deaths during childbirth in the developing world. (zdnet.com)
  • There are several lessons learned on how municipal authorities, program managers, and health care workers were able to find creative ways to keep providing services and support. (paho.org)
  • It is submitted that the evidence is now such that it leaves no room for doubt regarding the general proposition-that the prolonged deprivation of the young child of maternal care may have grave and far-reaching effects on his character and so on the whole of his future life. (nybooks.com)
  • To be clear, the worsening U.S. maternal mortality rate cannot be addressed without addressing how each American can access safe abortion care if and when they need it," Villavicencio noted. (medpagetoday.com)
  • After retirement, she sold her life's possessions to finance the construction of the Edna Adan Maternity Hospital , which provides maternal health care to Somaliland's poorest women. (itvs.org)
  • In Germany, a priority within health and social care for over a decade has been improving parents' interactions with and care for their children. (bmj.com)
  • The review appears in the current issue of The Cochrane Library , a publication of The Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates research in all aspects of health care. (sciencedaily.com)
  • In countries with good quality health care, deaths from postpartum hemorrhage are extremely rare because effective preventive methods are available [3] . (researchgate.net)
  • Maternal care and mental health . (bvsalud.org)
  • PURPOSE: This study assessed efficacy of one-time COVID-19 booster reminder/recall for booster eligible adolescents in a health-care system in Wisconsin. (cdc.gov)
  • METHODS: COVID-19 booster eligible patients aged 12-17years were randomized 1:1 to receive one reminder/recall message from the health-care system using the parent's preferred communication method (intervention) or no reminder/recall (usual care) in May2022. (cdc.gov)
  • Based on survey data, the implementation of RapidSMS did not appear to increase uptake of the maternal and newborn health services we studied in Rwanda. (springer.com)
  • In-utero hyperglycemia exposure influences later cardiometabolic risk, although few studies include women with pre-existing type 2 diabetes (T2D) or assess maternal body mass index (BMI) as a potential confounder. (nature.com)
  • This cohort study was conducted to understand the dynamics of maternal EV71 antibodies in Taiwanese young infants. (cdc.gov)
  • Transplacental maternal antibodies protect young infants from infectious diseases. (cdc.gov)
  • On the other hand, maternal antibodies in young infants may impede vaccine effectiveness and confound interpretation of vaccine-induced immune responses. (cdc.gov)
  • Thus, a need exists to understand the dynamics of pathogen-specific maternal antibodies in young infants ( 1 - 3 ). (cdc.gov)
  • This report addresses the dynamics of EV71 maternal antibodies in young infants by 6 months of age. (cdc.gov)
  • Under the assumption that levels of maternal antibodies decline exponentially and constantly, this study used paired serum samples collected at birth and at 6 months of age to estimate the biological half-life that represents an overall half-life and that is crucial for interpreting antibody responses in young infants. (cdc.gov)
  • Longitudinal and cross-sectional methods of data analysis were used to estimate the biological half-life of pathogen-specific maternal antibodies ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Obtaining monthly serum samples from young infants to measure seroprevalence of maternal EV71-specific antibodies is unrealistic. (cdc.gov)
  • The benefits afforded by maternal breastfeeding have been well established in the literature and include the increased number of antibodies acquired, adequate weight gain for the baby and the correct development of the oral structures involved in the action of sucking 1,4-5 . (bvsalud.org)
  • These data support the World Health Organization recommendation to administer measles vaccine in under-developed countries as soon after nine months of age as possible, regardless of nutritional status or the presence of minor illnesses. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • Update: The FDA and CDC have signed off on both the monoclonal antibody and the maternal vaccine. (factcheck.org)
  • The FDA approved Pfizer's maternal vaccine, Abrysvo, on Aug. 21 for pregnant individuals at 32 to 36 weeks of gestation. (factcheck.org)
  • The CDC said either the monoclonal antibody or the maternal vaccine could be used to protect babies from serious illness from RSV. (factcheck.org)
  • Vaccinations delivered primarily through health facilities to children at ages that are specific to each vaccine. (givewell.org)
  • ie, maternal death or maternal near miss). (nih.gov)
  • For near-miss cases, the mortality index was 8.6, and the maternal near-miss-to- maternal death ratio was 10.51. (bvsalud.org)
  • The maternal death rate dropped by 44% between 1990 and 2015 worldwide. (chicagotribune.com)
  • As a maternal death clock tick-tocks in Times Square, the big question is money. (womensenews.org)
  • To draw attention to the stalled progress, Amnesty International, the London-based rights group, launches a 'maternal death clock' today in the show-biz epicenter of New York City's Times Square. (womensenews.org)
  • INTRODUCTION itself, in the search for social control to demand public policies that are sensitive to the reality of Maternal death is defined as the death of each location9. (bvsalud.org)
  • The maternal in Brazil and a predominance of maternal death mortality ratio (MMR) is the indicator used to from indirect causes in about 60% of the Brazilian measure the mortality rate or coefficient: it is the states10. (bvsalud.org)
  • we cannot let that fact obscure that there was -- and still is -- already a maternal mortality crisis to compound," Hoskins continued. (medpagetoday.com)
  • In the wake of that decision, "we've seen abortion bans and restrictions take effect in various states across the country and, as a result, we can expect to see the U.S. maternal mortality crisis exacerbated," she added. (medpagetoday.com)
  • As has been shown in other viral pathogens, maternal antibody titers are assumed to follow a normal distribution after natural logarithm transformation and to experience a constant exponential decay over time after an infant's birth ( 1 , 12 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Maternal mortality is currently viral respiratory nature and has demonstrated understood as an indicator of social development clinical epidemiological characteristics of rapid because it combines complex social determinants, dissemination and the ability to infect the general which is why it was included in one of the goals population. (bvsalud.org)
  • While visiting the health centre near the chief's homestead, IPS spots a young woman making her way across the compound to the maternity room. (ipsnews.net)
  • when a woman comes to the health centre for whatever reason, she has to get the family planning right away, whether it is a routine health check-up or something serious. (ipsnews.net)
  • Even on Saturday or Sunday, if a woman comes to the health centre, she'll get it," Aissatoo says. (ipsnews.net)
  • I've ​had an exciting career with​in​ local, national and international organizations in the area of planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of maternal and newborn health​ ​programs in Canada, Uganda, Switzerland, Tanzania and South Sudan," says Hobbs. (ucalgary.ca)
  • In our cross-sectional study, we included women attending health facilities in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East that dealt with at least 1000 childbirths per year and had the capacity to provide caesarean section. (nih.gov)
  • From May 1, 2010, to Dec 31, 2011, we included 314,623 women attending 357 health facilities in 29 countries (2538 had a maternal near miss and 486 maternal deaths occurred). (nih.gov)
  • With the exception of pregnant women, the World Health Organization recommends treatment be offered to all individuals aged 12 years or older diagnosed with HCV, regardless of their disease stage. (medscape.com)
  • Using data from the 2014/15 Rwanda demographic and health survey, we identified a cohort of women aged 15-49 years who had a live birth that occurred between 2010 and 2014. (springer.com)
  • Women have higher levels of exposure because they do more cooking, but more men die because they have a higher rate of underlying health problems, according to the report. (latimes.com)
  • This study aimed to determine maternal opinions of COVID-19 testing for pregnant women and newborns in order to influence future clinical practice while advancing global knowledge of the impact of testing on patient experiences. (britishjournalofmidwifery.com)
  • Before the School of Husbands, women didn't want to go for delivery at health centres, they would stay at home and have their babies," Louche explains. (ipsnews.net)
  • Urinary iodine data was then pooled from all pregnant women in survey cycle 2009-2012 in this special dataset to facilitate analysis related to maternal iodine status. (cdc.gov)
  • Mental health concerns among women have spiked. (businessgrouphealth.org)
  • Various responsibilities and social inequities like financial and food insecurity make women more susceptible to developing a mental health issue relative to their male counterparts. (businessgrouphealth.org)
  • During their lifespan, women are 50% more likely to experience depressive and anxiety disorders than men, and both depressive and anxiety disorders are the leading mental health issues experienced by women. (businessgrouphealth.org)
  • Women are also 160% more likely to experience mental health issues than men. (businessgrouphealth.org)
  • 17 Furthermore, a Deloitte study noted while one-third of women may take time off work for mental health challenges, only 43% feel comfortable discussing their challenges in the workplace, and 42% of women are concerned that their career trajectory will suffer by not always being available. (businessgrouphealth.org)
  • 18 It is important to note that women struggling with mental health issues who do not take some time off to address them are likely to leave their job. (businessgrouphealth.org)
  • According to the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2008 unsafe abortions led to the deaths of 47,000 women and caused disabilities for five million women. (amnesty.org)
  • The average pay in dollars for women worldwide in 2017, according to the World Economic Forum, a Swiss nonprofit foundation. (chicagotribune.com)
  • The percentage of women worldwide who have "experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime," according to the World Health Organization. (chicagotribune.com)
  • The effort to put women's health back on the policy map comes days after Michelle Bachelet, the 58-year-old former president of Chile, was appointed head of the United Nations' new agency uniting four existing women and gender offices. (womensenews.org)
  • The clock will keep tally of the real-world women dying every minute during the U.N.'s three-day meeting. (womensenews.org)
  • In a kick-start effort, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in June unveiled what has come to be called the Global Strategy on Women and Children's Health. (womensenews.org)
  • It will cost $26 billion in 2011 and calls on all countries to integrate special health services for women into their health-delivery systems and to plan self-sustaining financing. (womensenews.org)
  • This provides a starting point of a multi-year, multi-sector road map to work together to improve the health of women,' said Jill Sheffield, president of Women Deliver, a global watchdog group focused on MDG No. 5. (womensenews.org)
  • Women and Girls Lead presents an online social screening of the Maternal Mortality segment of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide with special guest panelist Edna Adan. (itvs.org)
  • Despite the wide use of home-based records, implementation challenges persist, such as stock-outs, incorrect use of home-based records by health workers or low retention by women, parents and caregivers that impede the home-based record's potential. (go.jp)
  • Reducing under-five child and maternal mortality by two-thirds and three-quarters between 1990 and 2015 were two of the eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) [ 3 ]. (springer.com)
  • The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of RapidSMS on the utilization of maternal and newborn health services in Rwanda. (springer.com)
  • other organizations of the United Nations system working in the area of partnerships, also participated. (who.int)
  • In order to develop the proposed approach, WHO has considered different procedures and practices for preventing and managing conflicts of interest, including those adopted by organizations of the United Nations system, governmental bodies, non-State actors and health professional organizations. (who.int)
  • [10] It is a founding member of Mercosur , the United Nations , the Organization of American States , the Non-Aligned Movement and the Lima Group . (wikipedia.org)
  • The increase in global conflicts also has significantly deleterious effects on children, and governments and international organizations like the United Nations have a significant role to play in reducing these. (frontiersin.org)
  • Health Coverage , Millennium , Sustainable Development , United Nations , Universal by Editor Equity/Equidad - DB . (bvsalud.org)
  • Lack of access to condoms, which were previously dispensed through urban clinics and rural health houses funded by Iran's Family and Population Planning Programme, would also lead to a rise in sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. (amnesty.org)
  • This was in response to a large study in 2007 of children's health and development 1 that identified 20% of children aged 3 to 17 years were at risk of a mental health disorder. (bmj.com)
  • 5 Poverty is associated with a broad range of psychosocial burdens, including early parenthood and parental adverse childhood experiences.6 These problems might lead to lower parental capabilities, potentially acting as mediators for children's poorer health and development, as well as higher risk for maltreatment. (bmj.com)