Maternal mortality is a neglected tragedy that has been described as the greatest health scandal of our time1. Estimates of up to and more than 1000 per 100‚000 live births have been reported in many developing countries‚ Nigeria being among the countries with highest maternal mortality rates in the world. The obstetrical causes of maternal mortality are well documented‚ and these are largely preventable. There also social/cultural factors that significantly contribute to maternal mortality‚ including
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video are as follows 1. To reduce child mortality 2. To improve maternal health Here I will be focusing on just 1 of the 2 MGD discussed in the video {reducing child mortality : child dies before the age of five} and we would see accounts of child mortality in different segments of the world such as Africa‚ Asia etc. CHILD MORTALITY IN AFRICA Article 1: Elissa Jobson (2013 September 13). Ethiopia achieves development target on reducing child mortality. Retrieved from: http://www.theguardian
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Mortality salience‚ an awareness of one’s impending doom‚ and a tendency to literally objectify the human form suggests humanities’ innate‚ animalistic will to survive. Hence‚ when presented with death-related stimulus‚ individuals distance themselves from the perceived image of mortality (Goldenberg & Morris‚ 2015). According to Goldenberg and Morris (2015)‚ “women’s bodies possess certain reproductive responsibilities that underscore the corporeality of human existence‚” suggesting their physicality
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maternal mortality rate. Tuberculosis is a continuous concern relevant to all genders and ages in India. India has taken excessive measures in producing the DOTS program in order to effectively control this burden of disease. The health of the children is an ongoing battle that is being countered through the education of mothers gaining knowledge in areas such as proper nutrition‚ breastfeeding‚ and environmentally hygienic areas for children in order to successful decrease the child mortality rate in
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The main goal of MDG no. 4 Child Mortality is to reduce by two-thirds the under five years old mortality around the globe. In comparison to many of the other millennium development goals‚ Child Mortality is easily measured. According to statisticians of the United Nations the goal of reducing by two-thirds the U5M (Under Five mortality rate) will not be accomplished by 2015‚ but it is in my opinion that this is not a reason to call this a failure. U5M has
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Theresa Curtis Intro to Global Health Case Study: Infant Mortality Each year approximately 10 million babies do not breathe immediately at birth‚ of which about 6 million require basic neonatal resuscitation. The major burden is in low-income settings‚ where health system capacity to provide neonatal resuscitation is inadequate. Many of these babies die because their birth attendant or caregiver did not know a simple technique called neonatal resuscitation. Neonatal resuscitation is
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Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) to determine the significant difference on the mortality rate of golden apple snail when treated with 150 mL wild yam extracts on different water level mini-pond such that treatment A is 1cm water level treatment B is 2 cm water-level‚ treatment C is 3cm water level mini-pond. Based on the result‚ treatment A with 150 mL wild yam extract 1cm water level mini-pond produced the highest mortality rate golden apple snail‚ followed by treatment B with 150 mL wild yam extract
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identities such as male/female‚ Belgian/Italian‚ student‚ etc. Before the task‚ participants completed the first questionnaire. Participants were asked to describe in a paragraph about the feelings that arises from the thought of their death in the mortality salient condition. Whereas
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Dying may be seen by many as a burden‚ but in Hans Jonas’s article‚ “The Burden and Blessing of Mortality‚” dying is analyzed as not only a burden but also a blessing. By employing rhetorical modes such as division‚ definition‚ and illustration‚ Jonas paints a beautiful picture of how one should view death and the many views in which one can look at its foreboding shadow. Just by reading the title of this excerpt‚ the reader can easily establish that the rhetor uses many examples of division‚ the
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How is the tension between mortality and immortality conveyed in two of Keats’s poems? Keats’s poems convey an internal struggle between the preference of an authentic mortality or the artificial futile immortality. As a Romantic Poet‚ Keats elaborates on the necessity of self-expression and imagination in order to understand the power of introspection and the inner workings of the mind‚ rather than through a systematic‚ scientific process. In the Poem ‘’Ode on a Grecian Urn’’ Keats explores
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