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But a maternal death is only the tip of the iceberg.
These complications, called severe maternal morbidity, are on the rise in the United States, and they're life-altering.
Their goal is to lower maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity rates through quality and safety initiatives across the country.
The group has developed a number of safety bundles that target some of the most preventable causes of a maternal death.
Quality of care in the setting of childbirth is an underlying cause of racial and ethnic disparities in maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity in the United States, and it's something we can address now.
If every pregnant woman in every community received this kind of high-quality care and delivered at facilities that utilized standard care practices, our maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity rates would plummet.
But the truth is, we've had decades of unacceptably high rates of maternal death and life-threatening complications during delivery and decades of devastating consequences for moms, babies and families, and we have not been moved to action.
The recent media attention on our poor performance on maternal mortality has helped the public to understand: high-quality maternal health care is within reach.
It's very important for maternal and child health.
An exasperated doctor once told me, "I really want to transform the maternal health in my community, but I just don't have enough nurses."
And as we did, we described to them what their daughters-in-law actually did: they impacted maternal mortality rates and infant mortality rates.
Juana’s maternal grandparents were born in Spain, making them members of Mexico’s most esteemed class.
There is maternal mortality, there is the toll of breastfeeding and there is the toll of raising a child until it is independent.
Lifespring Hospital is a joint venture between Acumen and the government of India to bring quality, affordable maternal health care to low-income women, and it's been so successful that it's currently building a new hospital every 35 days.
But it also has one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the world.
The second item on the agenda is maternal mortality.
The world is increasingly seeing these programs as the bridge to comprehensive maternal and child health.
But we began with a family-planning program, following a very successful maternal child health activity, sets of activities.
In this installment, the sexual innuendo has been toned down with Kam showing a caring maternal side towards a recently orphaned genius teen.
Meryl Streep, in the throes of her trademark maternal sensitivity, plays an unhappy stay-at-home mother who feels confined to such a role and within the first five minutes of the film leaves her inattentive husband, in a fantastic performance by Dustin Hoffman, to find another role for herself.
The film is otherwise so violent and creepy (in a good way) that it desperately needs their warmth (Blair also played a mother in 2003's "Monster Makers", and her maternal scenes in that film have the same tender feeling to them).
We learn little about this woman's marriage except that she has been feeling her independence slipping away as of late; she's also recently learned she's pregnant, which has further complicated her heart (she doesn't want to be a complacent wifey, despite the maternal way she speaks to her husband over the phone).
For instance when she and Adam went to look at the car that Sara crashed in the junkyard you could see the maternal side of her come out and later in the film you saw that she too was invincible.
She and the ex play it cool and ironically pretend they don't know each other and by the end of it, the lover comes to understand the mom's maternal love for her daughter and why she can't continue with him as her lover, which is all spelled out without anyone saying anything directly.
The girl is pretty in a sort of maternal way.
Thanks to funding and training offered by my organization and others, the Somali Red Crescent will provide, on a continuing basis, maternal and child health support, vaccination programs, outpatient clinics, and other forms of community-based health care.
For example, progress in education – especially girls’ education – is closely associated with improvements in child survival and nutrition, and maternal health, as well as higher wages.
Moreover, the two share the same lineage of the Great Leader, or Suryong,linked to Kim Jong-suk on the maternal side, and are fully devoted to the absolute supremacy of the Suryong and hereditary succession.
Part of Bhutan’s GNH revolves, of course, around meeting basic needs – improved health care, reduced maternal and child mortality, greater educational attainment, and better infrastructure, especially electricity, water, and sanitation.
Spending $3.9 billion on family planning and maternal health initiatives, such as provision of emergency contraception in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, could avert 1.4 million infant deaths and 142,000 pregnancy-related deaths in women.
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