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Report on Issue of Maternal Health in India

   

Added on  2020-04-07

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Running head: MATERNAL HEALTH IN INDIAMATERNAL HEALTH IN INDIAName of the StudentName of the universityAuthor’s note

1MATERNAL HEALTH IN INDIAExecutive summaryThis report focuses on the issue of maternal health in one of the developing countries of theworld, India. The worldwide concern regarding maternal mortality and maternal health makes itan appropriate topic for the study. The alarming increase in maternal death has become a majorissue as the health of the future generation depends upon the well being of the mother and thechild. The report critically focuses on the MDGs ad the SDGs for establishing improvedmaternal health in India. According to the report of UN most of the maternal death burden isassociated to the third world countries. The report provides with the statistical findings regardingmaternal death. The report further sheds light upon the different barriers to maternal health andmortality such as poverty, lack of proper infrastructure facilities and emergency care, childmarriage, adolescence pregnancy, lack of awareness and decision making capability about herown self, domestic violence, malnutrition, communicable diseases and more. It provides an ideaabout the different aspects of care that a woman needs during pregnancy. The report furtherdiscusses about the interventions that have to be brought in order to meet the goals of thesustainable development.

2MATERNAL HEALTH IN INDIATable of ContentsIntroduction......................................................................................................................................3Discussion........................................................................................................................................3Maternal health............................................................................................................................3Maternal health in India...............................................................................................................4Barriers to maternal health...........................................................................................................4Causes of death in pregnant women............................................................................................6Critical overview of the MDGs and SDGs..................................................................................7Interventions and solutions to reduce maternal mortality............................................................9Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10References......................................................................................................................................12

3MATERNAL HEALTH IN INDIAIntroductionMaternal health had always been a key issue world wide as a large portion of maternaldeaths occurs every year due to several factors. This report aims to focus on the maternal healthof India, current issues faced in India regarding the maternal health, current maternal mortalityrate supported by statistical data, the barriers to the maternal health, and causes of the maternaldeaths. The report sheds light on the MDGs and the SDGs of the India to improve the mentalhealth. The report also focuses on the different policies that have been adopted by the Indiangovernment to achieve the currents SDG goals. The report further proposes withrecommendations that can be used to determine the well being of the expecting mothers and thechild.Improvement in the maternal health and well being of the mothers is an importantworldwide public goal, because it is their well being that will determine the health of the nextgeneration. Since most of the burden of the maternal mortality is provide by the developingcountries therefore I have taken up India as the country of my research.DiscussionMaternal health Maternal health refers to the health of the mother during pregnancy, childbirth and thepost partum period. Mother Hood is a beautiful experience and happens to be the most importanttime of a woman’s life, yet complications during pregnancy can lead to ill health of the motherand the baby and even death of the mother.

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