Health, Nutrition and Population

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Reducing Maternal and Child Mortality - What does the evidence show?

ieg_admin — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 20:23:42 +0000

Reducing Maternal and Child Mortality - What does the evidence show? ieg_admin Wed, 12/09/2015 - 15:23

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It us strange how it needs an eminent group like IEG to confirm common-sense, not that some experts will listen. When it comes to development, poor people can sort themselves out, if allowed and given the means. In Cambodia, in its quest for all births to have only officially trained attendants, safe birth kits were withdrawn from indigenous traditional birth attendants, even though public service provision was - and remains - lacking and indigenous mothers were still wary of departing from tradition.

Maternal mortality rates reduction to below 70 per 100,000 live births is a monster barrier to developing countries whose GDP cant support the proposed 15% budget allocation. This leads to low health workforce; poor infrastructure which have direct impact to maternal health; over depedance to NGOs and other health partners too leads to lack of government sustainable plans; lack of active community partnership and community based myths to access of care affects that goal;lack of adequate access to safe water and nutrition to children and political instability in some countries is also a barrier to both MDG 4 and 5

I found it very useful!

we need to have specific targets to evaluate cutural relations between women and children before.

Maternal and Child health are essential for good health. Reducing merternal and Child mortality are indispensable needs. Our planners at MoH need to be more objective and clear on targets. The health care systems must be prepared for the task ahead and this can best be demonstrated through adequate resource mobulisation both financial and human resources. The parlimentarians should take keen interest to budgets from MoH and ensure that they are responsive to the ste targets.

Experiences from Tanzania have suggested that achievement of the maternal mortality and neonatal mortality targets will likely rely on the further strengthening of the decentralised district health system rather than simply the introduction of new interventions. The key elements or health system building blocks as set out in the WHO publication "Systems Thinking for Health System Strengthening", namely service delivery, health workforce, health information, medicines/vaccines/technologies, health financing and leadership/governance will all need to be addressed simultaneously in order to provide a robust health system capable of handling the introduction and efficient delivery of any additional interventions even if these have proved to be successful and cost-effective (think of Ebola experiences). Similarly the parallel improvement of the existing array of interventions currently being delivered by the public health system such as IMCI, HIV, TB, FP and vaccinations will progressively add to the "attractiveness" and awareness of any newly introduced MNCH interventions through higher attendance at "point-of delivery health facilities. To some extent therefore one might actually consider achievement of reduced maternal and child mortality as actual key indicators of robust health system achievement.

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INFOGRAPHIC: Impact of Interventions on Early Childhood Development Outcomes

ieg_admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 19:36:11 +0000

The Kaleidoscope Effect

ieg_admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 20:11:59 +0000

The Kaleidoscope Effect ieg_admin Tue, 01/06/2015 - 15:11

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Reducing Maternal and Child Mortality - What does the evidence show?

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INFOGRAPHIC: Impact of Interventions on Early Childhood Development Outcomes

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