My Interest On Maternal Mortality, Morbidity, And Health

Today, the availability of birth control is taken for granted. There was a time, not long passed, during which the subject was illegal (“Margaret Sanger,” 2013, p.1). That did not stop the resilient leader of the birth control movement. Margaret Sanger was a nurse and women’s activist. While working as a nurse, Sanger treated many women who had suffered from unsafe abortions or tried to self-induce abortion (p.1). Seeing this devastation and noting that it was mainly low income women suffering from these problems, she was inspired to dedicate her life to educating women on family planning—even though the discussion of which was highly illegal at the time (p.1). She was often in trouble with

Thesis statement: Although teenage girls are prohibited from purchasing birth control, laws should be implemented to allow access to birth control as a means of managing safer sex, preventing the health risks and guarding them from the cycle of poverty.

Women's reproductive health is a debated and complex issue in today's society. Nowhere is its severity more prevalent than in areas of extreme poverty such as south and Central America. The resolution to these problems is far from simple. Yet, women are increasingly taking control of their lives and forming groups to combat many of the prejudices that hold them back. However highly debated some tactics for resolution may be it is hard to miss the shear urgency with which the issues of women's rights and health call us. The fight for gender equality cannot overlook the importance of equality in health care and control over one's own body. Women's health is an issue that

One of the points mentioned by Anne Murray is how women’s health’s has been ignored and neglected. This is a true case. Going back to the olden days and basing my analysis on women as healers, “Witches, Midwives, and Nurses” by English and Ehrenreich tells us women’s story as health workers and denounce the history of suppression. Women have always been healers. Even though they were not licensed with medical degrees, women were nurses and pharmacists. Today, however, the health care system is a male dominated industry. Because it has become the property of male professionals, many issues are affecting women and their children. For instance, according to Murray, female infants’ and children’s access to food and/ or medical care has been neglected because researchers either view the household as a single entity with uniform internal distribution or treat newborns as a sex neutral category. This demonstrates that little attention; research and financial support are given to expand the wellbeing of women and their children. The lack of participation of women in planning and implementing health care policies and politics has failed to take women’s health

Birth control has been legal in the US since 1972. It is, for the most part, easily accessible to American women currently. Such accessibility is not the case in third world countries. Despite the United Nations declaring birth control to be a “universal human right”, 222 million women in developing countries are still left without Family Planning methods (“ThinkProgress”). Less fortunate countries have difficulty providing birth control because of costs and social disapproval. Even in countries with limited access to birth control, women choose not to use it due to misconceptions stemmed from lack of education. However, all women deserve access to birth control no matter what country they reside in. Not only could it benefit women’s health, but it could save lives.

The implications of Donald Trump’s reinstatement of the “Gag Rule” on birth control are deadly for men, women, and children, and pose dangerous setbacks for the ongoing struggle against HIV/AIDS. Such legislation from a nation with considerable influence over health policy aggravates a global trend of limited abortion access; only 30% of the nations in the world today grant women abortions for any reason. Safe abortion practices are often underutilized due to varying case restrictions, leading many women to continue pursuing illegal, unsanitary, and dangerous alternative abortions. These practices are of grave concern to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, which UNAIDS seeks to eradicate by the year 2030. Unsafe abortions are statistically prevalent in women who suffer from HIV/AIDS, as they pose a high risk for transmission of the disease to their children and complications post-birth. Suffering from medical discrimination that prevents some pregnant women from receiving safe abortions even in legally permissible conditions, HIV-positive women have the lowest quality of access to safe prenatal and abortion services, and Trump’s “Gag Rule” will only make access more difficult for these populations

Giving women control over their fertility could, alone, reduce maternal deaths by up to 20–35% by minimizing pregnancies to the number desired (Khan, K. et al., 2006).

Women are more likely to experience high rates of domestic and sexual violence.Some women are forced to continue their pregnancy from a crime of rape, imagine the daily reminder and torture the woman has to face. Pregnancy can be a traumatic experience for many women, more work must be done to ensure for women to have the choice. Attempts to limit women's access to contraception, reproductive health information and abortion services constitute attacks on women's health and their ability to freely make their own decisions about their lives and bodies.

Childbirth is one of the most beautiful and natural occurrences in the world. From the beginning of the world’s creation, women have carried and delivered babies. The evolution of childbirth has taken many drastic turns throughout history. Births have started to be seen as medical procedures, rather than a beautiful, innate experience between a mother and her unborn child. Women are being torn away from the idea that a natural birth is normal, or even realistic. More women each day fear the idea of birthing a child naturally and ask for medicine before they even go into labor. All births, no matter what kind, are beautiful, empowering, and take great strength and endurance. However, this essay will be my persuasive argument on my opinion as

Sadly, most of the issues that are concerned in the public health fields about women are related on their abilities to be good human reproducers, and they focus on them most of the time. For example, an article, which was written by Marcia Inhorn in title of “Defining Women’s Health: A Dozen Massages from More Than 150 Ethnographies” remarks this issue. She mentions, “The medical and public health fields devoted to

Let us face it, no one can stop young teenagers from having sex, and abstinence only education program systems are not only ineffective, but unrealistic as well. Sexual behavior and the reproductive health of adolescents have emerged into radical public health matters (Danawi, 2016). For years, schools have aimed to save sex education for high school students, but now with the rising numbers in unintended teen pregnancies, there needs to be a transition into contraceptive education at an earlier age. There are many threats that are posed with ineffective education regarding contraceptives and fertility control. For global health to be attained; younger generations need to be educated about where they can get contraceptive options, it is a necessity for low income areas to be informed about access to reduced contraceptive costs due to ObamaCare, and male education needs to be considered more for the involvement of fertility control (Planned Parenthood, 2016).

A group known as FP2020 has been working to make family planning services available throughout the world. Through their efforts, they have avoided 77 million unplanned pregnancies in just three years. In the United States, a similar problem needs to be addressed. Although the costs and expenses associated with contraception is more accessible for the population, the locations are not. Having access to family planning services ensures that women can get the prenatal care they need for healthy pregnancies.

In a developed first world nation where the use of contraceptive such as birth control and condoms is due to the fact that our governments are concerned about the rates of teenage pregnancy, but for an underdeveloped nation it spells out demise for a woman to be a single mother and have a difficult time staying in school, social isolation and more unplanned pregnancies (Kane and Wellings, 1999). In those underdeveloped countries the problem lie where the widespread failure of not using the contraceptive correctly. For example in the UK, where contraceptive is available for free at least a quarter of the of pregnancies ending in abortion are conceived without contraception and most of those resulted in incorrect use or inconsistent use (Glasier et al, 2006).

The regulation of adolescent fertility and pregnancy prevention forms one of the top priority issues in modern society. Globally there are more than 15 million girls between the ages of 15 and 19 who give birth every year, with an additional 5 million who have abortions (WHO, 2012). In South Africa alone approximately 5.6% of females aged 14-19 fell pregnant in the year of 2013. To put this into perspective it means 99 000 schoolgirls fell pregnant which approximates to 271 per day. This is an increase from the already high 68 000 adolescents who fell pregnant in the year 2011 (Statistics South Africa, 2014). With all of this combined with SA’s high burden of HIV impose a severe challenge to the health of the South African youth.

Family planning is the ability for couples to anticipate and achieve their desired number of children and the spacing of their births. The fertility rate of a country can depend on many factors such as religion, the social status of women, access to health care and the ideal family size. Successful family programs aim to change all these things, the effects of these programs are far reaching and often go beyond what was planned. First world countries don’t often need a family planning program, due to an increase in women’s status and education. But third world countries who wish to keep their population down due to economic, space, or resources issues must implement some form of family planning. From harsh laws to changing social norms countries across the globe have begun to see the effects of their programs. Family planning programs can change many aspects of life in developing countries, the changes they make are effect by many things such as the government’s willingness to support them and current social values. In most cases family planning brings about a positive change in the communities it effects.