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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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The target audience for MATERNAL HEALTH PREGNANCY MORBIDITY and MORTALITY. Volume 1 is for women who are or plan to become pregnant. For an easy comprehension the book layout follows a unique order of events. Unfolding in its 18 chapters is a true story of a firs... Lees meer.

An international study of maternal care and maternal mortality. Since about 1800 different countries have developed quite different systems of maternal care and this book provides an analysis grounded in statistics of the evolution and the effectiveness of those sys... Lees meer.

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.

S heds light not only on the obstacles to making motherhood safer but to improving the health of poor populations in general. -Social Anthropology Since 1987 when the global community first recognized the high frequency of women in developing countries dying... Lees meer.