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Improving Maternal and Reproductive Health in South Asia Drivers and Enablers.

South Asia Region (SAR) has decreased maternal mortality ratio (MMR) by 65 percent between 1990 and 2013, which was the greatest progress among all world regions. Such achievement implores the question, What made SAR stand out against what is predicted by standard socioeconomic outcomes? Improving M...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: World Bank 2016.
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  • Front Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Executive Summary; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; The Analytical Framework: Drivers and Enablers for Improving Maternal and Reproductive Health Outcomes; Research Methodology; Organization of the Report; Notes; Chapter 2 Regional Trends in Maternal and Reproductive Health; Key Messages; Regional Context; Maternal Mortality; Maternal Health; Reproductive Health; Note; Chapter 3 Household Drivers; Key Messages; Introduction; Household Gender Dynamics; Access to Information and Increased Use of Services.
  • Women's Education and Household IncomeChapter 4 Program Drivers; Key Messages; Introduction; Skilled Birth Attendance; Institutional Delivery; Emergency Obstetric Care; Safe Abortion Services and Post-Abortion Care; Family Planning; Antenatal Care and Female Community Health Workers; Chapter 5 Health Sector Drivers; Key Messages; Introduction; Health Care Financing; Health Service Delivery; Human Resources for Health; Essential Drugs and Health Commodities; Health Information Systems; Leadership and Governance; Note; Chapter 6 Community Enablers; Key Messages; Introduction.
  • Deploying Community-Based Female Health WorkersCommunity-Based Interventions; Engaging Community Leaders; Reaching Economically and Socially Marginalized Women; Chapter 7 Multisectoral Enablers; Key Messages; Introduction; Education; Transport and Communications; Water and Sanitation; Nutrition; Energy; Conditional Cash Transfers; Microcredit; Chapter 8 Contextual Enablers; Key Messages; Introduction; Political Enablers; Economic Enablers; Demographic Enablers; Sociocultural Enablers; Chapter 9 No Single Intervention Is Sufficient; What Worked; Where More Evidence Is Needed.
  • What Made SAR Stand Out?The Way Forward; Notes; Appendix A The Different Conceptual Frameworks for Maternal Health Outcomes; Appendix B Structured Literature Review on Maternal Mortality; Appendix C Literature Review of Systematic Reviews on Maternal and Reproductive Health; Bibliography; Boxes; Box 3.1 Role of Men in Punjab, Pakistan; Box 5.1 Health Financing Schemes for Maternal Health; Box 7.1 Emergency Response System in Andhra Pradesh, India; Figures; Figure 1.1 Concentric Spheres of Constraints that Cause Maternal Mortality; Figure 1.2 Drivers and Enablers for Improving MRH Outcomes.
  • Figure 2.1 MMR Reduction by Region, 1990-2013Figure 2.2 Regional Maternal Mortality Ratios, 1990-2013; Figure 2.3 MMR Trends among SAR Countries; Figure 2.4 Proportion Reduction in MMR among SAR Countries, 1990-2013; Figure 2.5 Causes of Maternal Deaths in SAR, 2013; Figure 2.6 Performance of SAR Countries in Achieving MMR with Level of Health Expenditure; Figure 2.7 Skilled Birth Attendance by Region; Figure 2.8 Skilled Birth Attendance in SAR; Figure 2.9 Skilled Birth Attendance across Wealth Quintiles in Pakistan, 1990-2013.