All 45 Uses of
mortality
in
Half the Sky
- It was difficult back then to envision the Council on Foreign Relations fretting about maternal mortality or female genital mutilation.†
Chpt Intr.
- The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) summed up the mounting research this way: "Women's empowerment helps raise economic productivity and reduce infant mortality.†
Chpt Intr.
- The wood-paneled halls that have been used for discussions of MIRV warheads and NATO policy are now employed as well to host well-attended sessions on maternal mortality.†
Chpt Intr.
- We will try to lay out an agenda for the world's women focusing on three particular abuses: sex trafficking and forced prostitution; gender-based violence, including honor killings and mass rape; and maternal mortality, which still needlessly claims one woman a minute.†
Chpt Intr.
- In almost every conflict, mortality is disproportionately male.†
Chpt 5
- Maternal Mortality--One Woman a Minute Preparation for death is that most Reasonable and Seasonable thing, to which you must now apply yourself.†
Chpt 6
- Child mortality has plunged, longevity has increased, but childbirth remains almost as deadly as ever, with one maternal death every minute.†
Chpt 6
- The most common measure is the maternal mortality ratio (MMR).†
Chpt 6
- WHO found that between 1990 and 2005, developed and middle-income countries reduced maternal mortality significantly, but Africa reduced it hardly at all.†
Chpt 6
- Maternal morbidity (injuries in childbirth) occurs even more often than maternal mortality.†
Chpt 6
- In the West, we tend to think of disease and mortality as the province of doctors, but by far the greatest strides in global health have been made by public health specialists.†
Chpt 6
- Any serious effort to reduce maternal mortality likewise requires a public health perspective--reducing unwanted pregnancies and providing prenatal care so that last-minute medical crises are less frequent.†
Chpt 6
- It declared: It is difficult to understand why maternal mortality receives so little serious attention from health professionals, policy makers, and politicians.†
Chpt 6
- "The technical solutions to reduce maternal mortality are not enough," Allan wrote in one essay.†
Chpt 6
- We saw its impact when we stopped by a clinic in Zinder, in eastern Niger, the country with the highest lifetime risk of maternal mortality in the world.†
Chpt 6
- The Zinder clinic, it turned out, was part of a pilot program in Niger arranged by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)* and AMDD to fight maternal mortality.†
Chpt 6
- --ASHA-ROSE MIGIRO, UN DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL, 2007 The first step to saving mothers' lives is to understand the reasons for maternal mortality.†
Chpt 7
- Data on pelvis shapes is poor, but African women seem disproportionately likely to have anthropoid pelvises, and some experts on maternal health offer that as one reason maternal mortality rates are so high in Africa.†
Chpt 7
- There's a strong correlation between countries where women are marginalized and countries with high maternal mortality.†
Chpt 7
- Indeed, in the United States, maternal mortality remained very high throughout the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century, even as incomes rose and access to doctors increased.†
Chpt 7
- But from the 1920s to the 1940s in the United States, maternal mortality rates plunged--apparently because the same society that was giving women the right to vote also found the political will to direct resources to maternal health.†
Chpt 7
- Poverty is obviously also a factor, but high rates of maternal mortality are not inevitable in poor countries.†
Chpt 7
- Over the last half century, Sri Lanka has brought its maternal mortality ratio down from 550 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births to just 58.†
Chpt 7
- Investments in educating girls resulted in women having more economic value and more influence in society, and that seems to be one reason that greater energy was devoted to reducing maternal mortality.†
Chpt 7
- Sri Lanka shows what it takes to reduce maternal mortality.†
Chpt 7
- "Looking at maternal mortality is a great way to look at a health system as a whole, because it requires you to do a great many things," says Dr. Paul Farmer, the Harvard public health specialist.†
Chpt 7
- One study found that giving Vitamin A supplements to pregnant women in Nepal reduced maternal mortality by 40 percent, apparently because that reduced infections in malnourished women.†
Chpt 7
- The proportion of women delivering in health centers rose from 15 percent to 60 percent, and mortality plunged.†
Chpt 7
- Those countries that have paid attention to the problem have made a real difference in maternal mortality.†
Chpt 7
- " The World Bank summed up the experience in a 2003 report: "Maternal mortality can be halved in developing countries every 7-10 years … regardless of income level and growth rate.†
Chpt 7
- In 1987, partly as a result of Allan's landmark article in The Lancet, a UN conference convened in Nairobi to launch the Safe Motherhood Initiative; the goal was to "reduce maternal mortality by 50 percent by the year 2000.†
Chpt 7
- Then, in 2000, the UN formally adopted the Millennium Development Goal of reducing maternal mortality by 75 percent by 2015.†
Chpt 7
- The group's maternal mortality ratio was 872 per 100,000 live births.†
Chpt 7
- Norway and Britain are rare exceptions, having announced a major foreign aid program in 2007 to target maternal mortality.†
Chpt 7
- Maternal mortality is an injustice that is tolerated only because its victims are poor, rural women.†
Chpt 7
- She knew that Somaliland has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world, though precise figures do not exist because no one keeps track of deaths.†
Chpt 7
- One way to do that is to reduce child mortality, so that parents can be sure that if they have fewer children, they will survive.†
Chpt 8
- Mortality data show that in famines and droughts, it is mostly girls who die, not boys.
Chpt 11 *mortality = death rate (often given per 1,000 people per year)
- Indeed, women leaders haven't even been particularly attentive to issues like maternal mortality, girls' education, or sex trafficking.†
Chpt 11
- As we noted earlier, maternal mortality in the United States declined significantly only once women gained the right to vote: When women had a political voice, their lives also became a higher priority.†
Chpt 11
- Child mortality declined by 8-15 percent with the enactment of suffrage laws….†
Chpt 11
- The improvement in America's health during this period was stunning: The mortality rate for children aged one to four plummeted 72 percent between 1900 and 1930, although there are many other reasons for this decline as well, of course.†
Chpt 11
- The movement's agenda should be broad and enveloping, while focusing on four appalling realities of daily life: maternal mortality, human trafficking, sexual violence, and the routine daily discrimination that causes girls to die at far higher rates than boys.†
Chpt 14
- 6 billion project to eradicate obstetric fistula, while laying the groundwork for a major international assault on maternal mortality.†
Chpt 14
- The campaign would showcase the opportunity to help some of the world's most forlorn young women, deepen obstetric skills in Africa, and generate the energy to take subsequent steps to tackle maternal mortality.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(mortality) the quality of being mortal (subject to death)
or:
death rate -- often given per 1,000 people per year