NURS1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Weaning, Maternal Health, Umbilical Cord
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Topic 4 birthing through a culutral lens. In all societies, culture plays an important role in birthing. While biomedicine has historically improved health outcomes for babies and mothers, this healing system has its own risks and limitations, best-practice birthing draws from biomedicine and local cultural knowledge. Maternal health: the health of a woman during pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period . Maternal mortality ratio (mmr): the ratio of the number of maternal deaths during a given time period per 100,000 live births during the same time period . Singapore (6/100,000), australia (6/100,000), peru (89/100,000), chad (980/100,000) Maternal health is important because it impacts the: 75% of maternal deaths are caused by 5 main causes: High blood pressure during pregnancy (e. g. pre-eclampsia and eclampsia) Having malaria or hiv/aids during pregnancy are also important risk factors in many parts of the world. There is great variation in how cultural groups manage birthing, including:
