PHA-Exchange> Improving the health of mothers and babies, id21 insights health 11

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from Tom Barker <T.Barker at ids.ac.uk> -----
  
Improving the health of mothers and babies: breaking through health system 
constraints
id21 insights health 11, August 2007

Improving maternal health remains the most elusive of the Millennium 
Development Goals. Every minute, at least one woman dies from pregnancy-
related causes: 99 percent of these are in developing countries. The majority 
of these deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia, and are avoidable 
through using standard interventions and health care which all pregnant women 
and their newborn babies need.

The latest issue of id21 insights health is guest edited by Zoë Matthews, 
School of Social Sciences, Southampton University (UK), with contributions 
including:  

	*	Malay Kanti Mridha and Marge Koblinsky discuss the reasons 
behind the key constraint to progress: the world's acute lack of maternal 
health workers.
	*	Louise Hulton reviews the challenges from weak infrastructure 
to the development of effective maternal health care services.
	*	Gwyneth Lewis reminds us that poor provision of care, although 
far too common, can also coexist with the provision of 'too much' care.
	*	Jane Falkingham highlights how health care costs associated 
with childbirth can be catastrophic for poor families.
	*	Helga Fogstad looks to the future of extending maternity care 
to all women in the 75 countries that suffer 97 percent of the world's 
maternal deaths.
	*	Jeremy Shiffman considers the factors that influence political 
actors to provide long-term sustainable investment in maternal health.

Read the whole issue
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