Childbirth In South Asia

Author : Clemence Jullien
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0190130717

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Childbirth in South Asia by Clemence Jullien Pdf

Across the world, the conditions of childbirth are changing but not all in the same direction. Women in Western countries press for more home deliveries, and to confront some of the effects of the over-medicalisation of motherhood. Most developing countries, by contrast, promote deliveries in clinics and hospitals, and stigmatize women who deliver at home. Mobile phones and social media are pressed into service to identify high-risk mothers and to offer them pregnancy and delivery advice. All of the South Asian countries have been accused of neglecting childbirth and women's healthcare. The Millennium Development Goals (2000-2015) prompted important new Government schemes across South Asia, designed to address the issues of safe motherhood and childbirth. The Sustainable Development Goals (2015-2030) now mandate further efforts to reduce maternal and neo-natal mortality. This book illustrates the continuing paradoxes as well as the new challenges linked to childbirth in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. It brings together anthropologists, historians, and sociologists who reflect on the implications of these new schemes for women's own experiences.

Author : Clémence Jullien,Roger Jeffery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Birth customs
ISBN : 0190993294

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Childbirth in South Asia by Clémence Jullien,Roger Jeffery Pdf

Women in Western countries press for more home deliveries, and to confront some of the effects of the over-medicalisation of motherhood. Most developing countries, by contrast, promote deliveries in clinics and hospitals, and stigmatise women who deliver at home. All of the South Asian countries have been accused of neglecting childbirth and women's healthcare. The Millennium Development Goals (2000-2015) prompted important new Government schemes across South Asia, designed to address the issues of safe motherhood and childbirth. The Sustainable Development Goals (2015-2030) now mandate further efforts to reduce maternal and neo-natal mortality. This book illustrates the continuing paradoxes as well as the new challenges linked to childbirth in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal.

Author : Sabitra Kaphle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000417012

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Socio-Cultural Insights of Childbirth in South Asia by Sabitra Kaphle Pdf

This book analyses the significant socio-cultural factors impacting childbirth experiences of women living in remote and complex social settings. This book challenges the notion that childbirth is a universal biological event which women experience in their reproductive lives and provides an in-depth social perspective of understanding childbirth. Drawing on evocative stories of women living in the Himalayas, the author discusses how childbirth should be supported to enable women to take control and ownership of their experiences. Based on extensive research undertaken in remote mountain regions of Nepal, the book provides evidence for and discussion of childbirth in the context of other countries, cultures and communities. Utilising a feminist perspective, this book critiques medical control of childbirth and argues in favour of giving power to women so that they can make decisions which are right for them. In doing so, the author unpacks complexities associated with women’s lives in remote communities and highlights the significance of addressing broader determinants impacting birth outcomes and valuing childbirth traditions to ensure cultural safety for women, families and societies. Through exploring the wide range of factors influencing women and their childbirth experiences, this book offers a new model for childbirth that policy makers, practitioners, communities, educators, researchers and other professionals can use to make childbirth an empowering experience for women. It will be of interest to academics and professionals in the fields of public health, midwifery, health promotion, sociology and South Asian Studies.

Author : Santi Rozario,Geoffrey Samuel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134471348

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Daughters of Hariti by Santi Rozario,Geoffrey Samuel Pdf

Hariti is the ancient Indian goddess of childbirth and women healers, known at one time throughout South and Southeast Asia from India to Nepal and Bali. Daughters of Hariti looks at her 'daughters' today, female midwives and healers in many different cultures across the region. It also traces the transformation of childbirth in these cultures under the impact of Western biomedical technology, national and international health policies and the wider factors of social and economic change. The authors ask what can be done to improve the high rates of maternal and infant deaths and illnesses still associated with childbirth in most societies in this area and whether the wholesale replacement of indigenous knowledge by Western biomedical technology is necessarily a good thing.

Author : Sameh El-Saharty,Sadia Chowdhury,Naoko Ohno,Intissar Sarker
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464809644

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Improving Maternal and Reproductive Health in South Asia by Sameh El-Saharty,Sadia Chowdhury,Naoko Ohno,Intissar Sarker Pdf

South Asia Region (SAR) has decreased maternal mortality ratio (MMR) by 65 percent between 1990 and 2013, which was the greatest progress among all world regions. Such achievement implores the question, What made SAR stand out against what is predicted by standard socioeconomic outcomes? Improving Maternal and Reproductive Health in South Asia: Drivers and Enablers identifies the interventions and factors that contributed to reducing MMR and improving maternal and reproductive health (MRH) outcomes in SAR. In this study, the analytical framework assumes that improving MRH outcomes is influenced by a multitude of forces from within and outside the health system and considers factors at the household and community levels, as well as interventions in other sectors and factors in the enabling environment. The analysis is based on a structured literature review of the interventions in SAR countries, relevant international experience, and review of the best available evidence from systematic reviews. The focus of the analysis is mainly on assessing the effectiveness of interventions. The findings from this study indicate that the most effective interventions that prevent maternal mortality are those that address the intra-partum stage - the point where most maternal deaths occur - and include improving skilled birth attendance coverage, increasing institutional delivery rates, and scaling up access to emergency obstetric care. There is also adequate evidence that investing in family planning to increase contraceptive use also played a key role during the inter-partum phase by preventing unwanted pregnancies and thus averting the risk of maternal mortality in SAR countries. Outside the programmatic interventions, the levels of household income, women’s education, and completion of secondary education of girls were also strongly correlated with improved MRH outcomes. Also, there is strong evidence that health financing schemes - both demand and supply side - and conditional cash transfer programs were effective in increasing the uptake of MRH services. The study points out to many other interventions with different degrees of effectiveness. The study also identified four major reasons for why SAR achieved this progress in MMR reduction. The best practices and evidence of what works synthesized in this study provide an important way forward for low- and middle-income countries toward achieving the health-related Sustainable Development Goals.

Author : Sabaratnam Arulkumaran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Childbirth
ISBN : 0521172152

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Best Practice In Labour And Delivery ( South Asian Edition ) by Sabaratnam Arulkumaran Pdf

Author : Savita Katbamna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015048546041

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"Race" and Childbirth by Savita Katbamna Pdf

'Race' and Childbirth explores the experiences of pregnancy and childbirth from the perspectives of two groups of South Asian women in Britain. The women's personal accounts are examined within the context of the immense diversity which exists within the South Asian communities in terms of socio-economic, cultural, religious and immigration history. The book highlights the relationship between these factors and women's childbirth experiences. It traces the progress of a group of Gujarati Hindu and Bangladeshi Muslim women from the third trimester of pregnancy to six weeks after birth. The women's moving personal accounts provide an insight into the tension between the medical and traditional approaches to care during pregnancy and childbirth, and the strategies they use in negotiating diametrically opposed childbirth practices. The central role of older female relatives in the maintenance of traditional practices and their influence over pregnant women within extended families is explored in depth. 'Race' and Childbirth provides an up-to-date account of this much neglected subject. It explores issues which are beyond the experience of many health professionals and highlights many areas where there is a need for greater sensitivity. The book is recommended reading for general practitioners, obstetricians, midwives, health visitors and medical social workers. It is also directly relevant to researchers, trainers and students in these fields.

Author : Pranee Liamputtong Rice
Publisher : Ausmed Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Asians
ISBN : 0958717176

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Asian Mothers, Western Birth by Pranee Liamputtong Rice Pdf

Author : Donn Vorhis Hart,Anuman Rajadhon (Phrayā),Richard J. Coughlin
Publisher : New Haven, Conn. : Human Relations Area Files Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015008183686

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Southeast Asian Birth Customs by Donn Vorhis Hart,Anuman Rajadhon (Phrayā),Richard J. Coughlin Pdf

Author : Jane Richardson Hanks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120055244

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Maternity and Its Rituals in Bang Chan by Jane Richardson Hanks Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ausmed Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015034245350

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Asian Mothers, Australian Birth by Anonim Pdf

Collection of articles on the experiences of Asian women in Australia in respect to childbirth and childrearing. Discusses topics such as pregnancy and birth in intercultural settings, and antenatal and birthing beliefs and cultural practices of women from a number of Asian countries, as well as providing personal accounts of pregnancy and birth in Australia. Includes a bibliography and an index.

Author : Cecilia Coale Van Hollen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520935396

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Birth on the Threshold by Cecilia Coale Van Hollen Pdf

Even childbirth is affected by globalization—and in India, as elsewhere, the trend is away from home births, assisted by midwives, toward hospital births with increasing reliance on new technologies. And yet, as this work of critical feminist ethnography clearly demonstrates, the global spread of biomedical models of childbirth has not brought forth one monolithic form of "modern birth." Focusing on the birth experiences of lower-class women in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Birth on the Threshold reveals the complex and unique ways in which modernity emerges in local contexts. Through vivid description and animated dialogue, this book conveys the birth stories of the women of Tamil Nadu in their own voices, emphasizing their critiques of and aspirations for modern births today. In light of these stories, author Cecilia Van Hollen explores larger questions about how the structures of colonialism and postcolonial international and national development have helped to shape the form and meaning of birth for Indian women today. Ultimately, her book poses the question: How is gender—especially maternity—reconfigured as birth is transformed?

Author : Abdo Yazbeck,David H. Peters
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0821355317

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Health Policy Research in South Asia by Abdo Yazbeck,David H. Peters Pdf

South Asia is a region of contrasts, with impressive technological achievements but also more than 40 percent of the world's poor. These contrasts are evident in the health sector, which demonstrates large variations in health, nutrition, and fertility outcomes.'Health Policy Research in South Asia' showcases some of the innovative qualitative and quantitative research methodologies being used in South Asia to provide empirical guidance for health sector reform and policy development. The four research areas presented are analysis of inequality, expenditure analysis, private sector analysis, and consumer and provider perspectives.Salient themes emerge from the 12 health policy research activities reviewed and emphasize the importance of strengthening local capacity and building ownership: • Governments can and should distribute subsidies in the health sector more efficiently and effectively. • The private sector, which dominates service delivery in most of South Asia, requires a different set of public sector policy instruments. • Informed consumers/citizens can and should play an important role in influencing health service delivery. • Empirical research can and should provide policymakers with some of the tools needed to improve and monitor the performance of the sector. This book will be of interest to health sector policymakers and analysts, to academics and students in public health and health economics, and to anyone with an interest in the impact ofhealth policy on development.

Author : John Richards,Manzoor Ahmed,Md. Shahidul Islam
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-23
Category : Education and state
ISBN : 9781487522551

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The Political Economy of Education in South Asia by John Richards,Manzoor Ahmed,Md. Shahidul Islam Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive and accessible treatment of recent academic and policy studies of basic education in South Asia.

Author : Fernando Arias,Amarnath G Bhide,Arulkumaran S,Kaizad Damania,Shirish N Daftary
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9788131238769

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Arias' Practical Guide to High-Risk Pregnancy and Delivery - E-Book by Fernando Arias,Amarnath G Bhide,Arulkumaran S,Kaizad Damania,Shirish N Daftary Pdf

Thoroughly revised edition of this well-known text is prompted by the popularity of the previous edition among both students and practitioners. The revised edition has been endeavoured keeping the key objective of Dr Fernando Arias alive—to provide Obs & Gynae residents, fellows in Maternal–Fetal Medicine, obstetricians, general physicians and interested nurses and medical students with a source of practical information about complications of pregnancy. • Most of the chapters have been completely re-written. • A new chapter ‘Impact of Advances in Genetics on Prenatal Diagnosis’ has been added, which does justice to the enormous advances in the field of Prenatal Genetics in the recent years. • Our understanding of multiple pregnancies has increased considerably. A separate chapter on multiple pregnancy has been added given that multiple pregnancies are at high risk of developing problems and therefore require greater attention. • An entire section of intrapartum problems has been added, making this a comprehensive Obstetric text. • The editors have managed to persuade leaders in the field to write for this edition. The chapters are authored by researchers working on the coalface. Their first-hand experience, knowledge, wisdom and hard work are evident in this edition.