Gender and maternal and newborn health

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Socioeconomic, cultural and political factors affect women's vulnerability to maternal death: ( Z. Oxaal;S. Baden / BRIDGE , 1996); Why, despite continual technological and medical advance, do one out of every fifty women in developing countries still die in pregnancy and childbirth? This paper explains how socio-economic, cult...
Husband’s disapproval is an important barrier to prenatal care use by pregnant women: ( B. T. Biratu; D. P. Lindstrom / Ethiopian Journal of Health Development , 2006); This article, published in the Ethiopian Journal of Health Development, examines the influence of the attitudes and background characteristics of husbands and wives on prenatal care utilisation, and i...
Tackling gender inequalities is key to reducing maternal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: ( B.N. Simwaka; S. Theobald; Y.P. Amekudzi; R. Tolhurst / British Medical Journal , 2005); This article, taken from the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Africa issue, calls for gender equality to be put on the African agenda. The authors point out that of all the Millennium Development Goals...
Methods to prevent female foeticide: ( B.R. Siwal / Eldis Document Store , 2005); This document looks at the trends of female foeticide in India. It explores the legal initiatives which prohibit female foeticide, but emphasises that legislation is not enough. It proposes a number o...
Local and global efforts need to be ramped up and strengthened to end fistula: ( United Nations Population Fund , 2004); This paper outlines the UNFPA's Campaign to End Fistula, a programme begun in 2003. The Campaign is working to improve maternal and child health, alleviate poverty and advance gender equality, bringin...
A cradle-to-grave approach to women’s nutrition: training aid for trainers: ( N. Ntombela; M. Stone-Jimenez; J. Ross; L. Martin / LINKAGES Project , 2005); Recommended reading; Produced by the Linkages Project, this training module is intended to provide instructors with the basic theory to train health workers on women’s nutrition, with a focus on the complete life cycle. I...
A call to use the maternal mortality MDG to strengthen health systems: ( L. Freedman / Gender and Development: Women Reinventing Globalisation , 2003); This article, from Gender and Development, argues that there is an opportunity for increased feminist action around the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on reducing maternal mortality. The author ou...
Health sector reform, particularly in Africa, is strongly gendered: ( M. Mackintosh; P. Tibandebage / United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development , 2004); This paper draws upon these established themes in the literature on gender and health to explore perspectives on the gendered impacts of Health Sector Reforms (HSRs), with particular reference to Afri...
Improving attendance of skilled birth attendants is necessary to improve maternal health: ( United Nations Population Fund , 2004); Since 1998, the Maternal Mortality Update, a biannual publication of UNFPA, has documented strategies, partnerships and projects for reducing maternal mortality and morbidity in the developing world. ...
Documenting research and interventions to improve skilled care at birth around the world: ( United Nations Population Fund , 2004); Recommended reading; This booklet, a companion to the Maternal Mortality Update 2004, documents research and interventions to improve skilled care at birth throughout the developing world. It includes an overview of effor...