Achieving Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 in Sri Lanka

Autor:	S Amarasekera, R Hattotuwa, I Amarasinghe, Malik Goonewardene, A Ranatunga, Hemantha Senanayake
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Public health Obstetrics and Gynecology Millennium Development Goals Abortion medicine.disease Infant mortality Child mortality Nursing Unsafe abortion medicine Maternal death business Health policy
Zdroj:	BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 118:78-87
ISSN:	1470-0328
DOI:	10.1111/j.1471-0528.2011.03115.x
Popis:	Sri Lanka has an exemplary record in maternal and child health care. Provision of free education for over 60 years has helped to empower women. Medical care is accessible and provided free of charge. The maternal mortality ratio and the other indices of maternal and neonatal health have shown uninterrupted improvement since 1930. Midwives and the policy to increase their presence has been the key to success. Public health midwives provide care at the doorstep. Institutional midwives carry out the vast majority of deliveries, of which 99% occur in hospitals. Although on target with the Millennium Development Goals, some challenges that still remain are maternal death from postpartum haemorrhage and unsafe abortion, and perinatal deaths due to congenital abnormalities and prematurity.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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