Maternal+Health

(1) VIDEO GUIDES
 //The videos below will give students more information about maternal health.//

Click [|here] to access //Millennium Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health// Click [|here] to access //Everywoman: Maternal Mortality// Click [|here] to access //United Nations Millennium Campaign//

(2) LINKS TO NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (NGOs)
//The following organizations have a commitment to maternal health; students can learn more about what the NGO community is doing to improve maternal health.//

India's [|Action and Research Training for Health] organization [|Medicins Sans Frontieres] [|The American Red Cross] [|Oxfam International] [|Every Mother Counts]

(3) PRIMARY SOURCES
//The following sources are also optional resources for students to explore on their own time.//

For the World Health Organization's maternal mortality factsheet, click [|here] For UN Millennium Goal number 5, to decrease maternal mortality, click [|here] For UNICEF's commitment to Millennium Goal number 5, click [|here] For the World Food Program's efforts in decreasing maternal malnutrition, click [|here] For the World Health Organization's assessment of maternal malnutrition, click [|here] For the UN Population Fund's official report on the state of the world's midwifery, click [|here]

(4) COUNTRY RESEARCH
//The PDFs included for every country located below are the "Country Data Sets" that consist of information compiled from the CIA World Fact Book and the Human Development Report of 2010. They can be printed out for each student.// //The links below are on-line articles having to do explicitly with the country and the issue or one of the sub-issues.//

Read this report from the World Health Assembly on maternal health [|here]

Afghanistan
[|Afghanistan.pdf] To read Afghanistan's BBC Profile, click [|here] mmary of the maternal health situation in Afghanistan, click [|here] To read about how UNICEF is trying to improve maternal health in Afghanistan, click [|here] Read about public policy improvements in Afghanistan after the Taliban [|here]

Azerbaijan
[|Final_Data_Azerbaijan.pdf] To read Azerbaijan's BBC Profile, click [|here] To read about Azerbaijan's efforts to improve maternal health, click [|here] To read about US international aid for Azerbaijan, click [|here]

Brazil
[|Final Data-BRAZIL.pdf] To read Brazil's BBC Profile, click [|here] To read about the state of Brazil's maternal health, click [|here] To read the World Bank's assessment of Brazil's maternal health, click [|here]

China
[|Final Data- CHINA.pdf] To read China's BBC Profile, click [|here] To read about maternal health in China, click [|here] To read about issues in improving China's maternal health, click [|here] To read about how the Chinese government has managed to reduce maternal deaths, click [|here]

Cuba
[|Final_Data_Cuba.pdf] To read Cuba's BBC Profile, click [|here] To read about the Cuban health care system, click [|here] To read about about how Cuba's health care system is helping the world's poor, click [|here]

Egypt
[|Final Data-EGYPT.pdf] To read Egypt's BBC Profile, click [|here] To read about Egypt's strategies to improve maternal health, click [|here] To read about the success of these strategies, click [|here]

Gabon
[|Final Data-GABON.pdf] To read Gabon's BBC Profile, click [|here] To read about Gabon's commitment to maternal health, click [|here]

Guatemala
[|Guatemala.pdf] To read Guatemala's BBC Profile, click [|here] To read about the state of Guatemala's maternal health, click [|here] To read about US international aid and improving Guatemala's maternal health, click [|here]

Hungary
[|CIAandHDIforHungary.pdf] To read Hungary's BBC Profile, click [|here] To read an official report from the government of Hungary about maternal health, click [|here] To read about maternal health in Hungary, click [|here]

India
[|Final Data-India.pdf] To read India's BBC Profile, click [|here] To read about UNICEF's efforts to fight maternal deaths in India, click [|here] To read about how the government of India is trying to improve maternal health, click [|here] To read an official World Health Organization report on the state of India's maternal health, click [|here]

Israel
[|Final Data- ISRAEL.pdf] To read Israel's BBC Profile, click [|here] To read about maternal health in Israel, click [|here]

Lebanon
[|Final Data-LEBANON.pdf] To read Lebanon's BBC profile, click [|here] To read a newspaper article about Lebanon's maternal health, click [|here] To read an official report presented by Lebanon to the WHO about its maternal health, click [|here]

Morocco
[|Final Data-MOROCCO.pdf] To read Morocco's BBC Profile, click [|here] To read about the government of Morocco's attempts to improve maternal health, click [|here] To read about the state of Morocco's maternal health, click [|here]

Netherlands
[|Netherlands.pdf] To read the Netherlands' BBC Profile, click [|here] To read about the Netherlands' contribution to the improvement of worldwide maternal health, click [|here] To read about the levels of aid given by the Netherlands, click [|here]

Nigeria
[|Final Data-NIGERIA.pdf] To read Nigeria's BBC profile, click [|here] To read about the state of Nigeria's maternal health, click [|here] To read about the government of Nigeria's commitment to the improvement of maternal health, click [|here]

Pakistan
[|Pakistan.pdf] To read Pakistan's BBC Profile, click [|here] To read about the government of Pakistan's commitment to maternal health, click [|here]

Peru
[|Peru.pdf] To read Peru's BBC Profile, click [|here] To read about the controversy surrounding Peru's high maternal death rate, click [|here] To read a report about the state of Peru's maternal health, click [|here]

Slovenia
[|Slovenia.pdf] To read Slovenia's BBC Profile, click [|here] To read a report about the state of Slovenia's maternal health, click [|here]

South Africa
[|Final Data-SOUTH AFRICA.pdf] To read South Africa's BBC Profile, click [|here] To read a report on the state of South Africa's maternal health, click [|here] To read about South Africa's effort to improve maternal health, click [|here]

Sudan
[|Final_Data_Sudan.pdf] To read the Sudan's BBC Profile, click [|here] To read the UN's assessment of maternal health in Sudan, click [|here] To read about the state of maternal health in Sudan, click [|here]

United States
[|Final Data-UNITED STATES.pdf] To read the United States' BBC Profile, click [|here] To access the Center for Disease Control's website about maternal health for people living in the US, click [|here] To read about cooperation with the international community in trying to reduce maternal death, click [|here] To read about the US' efforts to improve maternal health around the world, click [|here]