Narrative Medicine in Action. Lessons from the Maternal Mortality Project addresses the United States s ongoing maternal health crisis by extracting findings from eighteen underrepresented women s interviews using narrative medical research that is analyzed through the... Lees meer.

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The scale of maternal mortality and morbidity today is staggering. This book focuses on a vital part of a human rights response to maternal mortality viz. accountability. Accountability encompasses monitoring review and redress at the local national and international... Lees meer.

All too often childbirth in early modern England was associated with fear suffering and death and this melancholy preoccupation weighed heavily on the seventeenth-century mind. This landmark study examines John Milton s life and work uncovering evidence of the poet... Lees meer.

Central nervous system cardiovascular system respiratory system gastro-intestinal tract hepato-biliary system and pancreas urinary system female genital tract and others. The book discusses about 45 cases of maternal autopsies. These maternal mortalities are rela... Lees meer.

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This volume fourth in the series of Vital and Health Statistics Monographs sponsored by the American Public Health Association is the first nongovernmental study to deal jointly with infant maternal and childhood mortality. In their investigation of the circumstance... Lees meer.

Epidemiological studies are able to combine different sciences such as public health social geography and medicine to gain better knowledge of a situation. Hence it is a useful branch of sciences which integrate art and science to answer complicated questions. This sp... Lees meer.

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Every minute one woman dies from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth this means that about 529 000 women die every year. In addition for every woman who dies during childbirth more suffer injury infection or disease. Approximately 10 million women are a... Lees meer.

This book explores the degree to which Malawi is in compliance with its treaty based obligations under human rights law with regard to reducing maternal mortality. It critically examines human rights obligations and State responsibility in this regard. The central argum... Lees meer.

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Reduction of maternal mortality is one of the major goals of several recent international conferences and has been included in the Millennium Development Goals. However measuring maternal mortality is difficult and complex. Reliable estimates of the dimensions of the p... Lees meer.

The Republic of Indonesia home to over 240 million people is the world s fourth most populous nation. Ethnically culturally and economically diverse the Indonesian people are broadly dispersed across an archipelago of more than 13 000 islands. Rapid urbanization ha... Lees meer.