There are three possible explanations for the problem - poor social circumstances, maternal health or genetic factors.
In those months maternal health, breastfeeding and infant care, not agriculture, matter most.
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The Mother's Index uses indicators of maternal health and under-five mortality, as well as women's education, income and political status.
To continue to encourage safe motherhood, Ministry of Health spokesperson Drhimeur said, the government is creating new maternal health programs.
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The scholars found a complex but clear series of connections between maternal health and the offspring's fatness in later life.
Nepal ranks low in the league tables on maternal health, female literacy and the role of women in public life.
Women have traditionally led the fight to improve access to family planning and the provision and quality of maternal health services.
Social entrepreneurs, champions of maternal health among them, have rallied around the cause and actions speak louder than words.
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This is one of a number of projects where new communication technology is used to improve maternal health care in developing countries.
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Perhaps even more importantly, they take the message out to new communities about the importance of family planning and proper maternal health care.
For Stachel, the solar suitcase is only part of a bigger mission to improve maternal health care and lower mortality rates in developing countries.
And Sarah Brown, Global Patron of the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood, addresses the need for quality maternal health services for all girls and women.
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Photo (supplied by participants) from dinner Friday, at the Hotel Schatzalp in Davos: Melinda Gates, Sarah Brown, Wendi Murdoch and Indra Nooyi hosted the for women supporting maternal health.
It can reduce issues around maternal health and high child fatality rates, which are leading to a combined global population that is both very young and aging at the same time.
"We didn't set out to transform maternal health care around the world, but it feels like this has grown to something so much bigger than I had ever imagined, " she said.
When I took office, I launched the Presidential Initiative for Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood, a project that I hope will reverse the poor access to reproductive health services for women in my country.
Irina Bokova underscored that UNESCO has been making a strong plea for education to be recognized as the key to reducing poverty, improving child and maternal health, fighting HIV and AIDS, and empowering girls and women.
Babatunde Osotimehin: What we have learned was that efforts to deal with the epidemic might have been much more effective if they had been more tightly integrated with those to improve sexual, reproductive and maternal health.
Other factors which can reduce the effects of marginalization are improved early intervention and maternal health, the removal of school fees, the provision of teaching and learning materials, building schools closer to isolated communities, and improving teacher training.
Bowen, who is in the process of making the fundraiser a nonprofit organization, says she hopes to help women who have already developed fistula, while the bigger organizations tackle other issues such as poverty, maternal health and human rights.
Instead, this new effort involves workers, suppliers and companies as active partners in efforts to improve child and maternal health, promote gender equality and empower women, combat disease, strengthen local communities and protect the environment wherever they do business.
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Rahim Kanani: What are some examples of organizational or governmental efforts that you can point to as best-practice cases that have been particularly successful on the ground in safeguarding maternal health, or in dealing with issues of family planning?
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Experts warn that restricted access does not decrease the abortion rate but drives the procedure underground, creating a black market that threatens maternal health and more adversely affects poorer women who do not have access to safe abortions abroad.
These samples, which remain in good condition after more than 30 years, are now the subject of intense study, because they are a snapshot of maternal health at the time of pregnancies whose babies are now well into adulthood.
Improving water resource management, increasing access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation and promoting hygiene can improve the quality of life of billions of individuals, as well as reduce child mortality, improve maternal health and cut the incidence of waterborne diseases.
In the weeks leading up to the event, I had an opportunity to speak with featured WIE Symposium panelist Liya Kebede (model, actress, fashion designer, and activist whose charity, The Liya Kebede Foundation, works toward ensuring maternal health and saving the lives of women and children around the world) about the women that have inspired her and her thoughts for the next generation of women leaders.
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BPAmoco is helping to finance a child-nutrition and maternal-health programme in Thanh Hoa, Vietnam.
Lu, at the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, has been researching maternal distress for years.
Reproductive health and family planning services are available through Alaska's Department of Maternal and Child Health, which is headed by Stephanie Burch.
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