The Effects Of Prenatal And Delivery Care On Mothers

Economic growth has much improved the infant mortality rate though better healthcare facilities and living conditions. Japan has fallen to one of the world’s lowest infant mortality levels at 3.6 per 1,000 live births in 2006 (Saigusa, 2006). Infant mortality is largely affected by the health of the mother, which makes pre-natal health imperative in keeping infant mortality rates low. Since Japan offers health care to all, access to prenatal care is easier to get therefore making mothers healthier and help in finding complications earlier in the pregnancy.

The article presents information regarding how Medicaid has expanded to States that it was not in existence such as New York through the provision of the statistics of the beneficiaries. The author focuses on the measurement of the quality of the Medicaid which has deteriorated at an alarming rate leading to a greater future concern on the medical coverage of the patients in the Medicaid program. The article also emphasizes on the reports by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services which reported of poor quality of the services offered by Medicaid. For instance, the existence of low- birth weight babies, patient’s satisfaction and body mass indexes. The authors further states that, for the future success of the Medicaid on the poor and the sick, there should be a balance on the quality and financial

The EDHS of 2014 had a set of questions on maternal health services: like amount of antenatal visits to the last birth, place of antenatal, a provider of antenatal, timing of first antenatal visit, components used to assess the quality of antenatal, tetanus toxoid, place of delivery, provider help at delivery, timing of first postnatal check-up, and the provider of the postnatal check-up. Moreover, the Andersen’s behavioural model and Thaddeus’s three delays model (47, 48) will be adapted to examine the relationship between personal level socioeconomic and demographic factors, the incidence of sicknesses and use of health care services. Based on this, our variables of interest are: 1) incidence of maternal sickness, 2) incidence of neonatal sickness, and 3) use of health care services.

The hallmark of a successful pregnancy and delivery of a healthy baby relies on maternal access to prenatal care services. Prenatal care involves all healthcare services provided to moms that promote the health and wellness of mom and baby during her pregnancy (Lowdermilk, 2012). However, health disparities, low social economic status and the lack of prenatal care awareness continue to prevent access to care to many individuals and families within Southeastern Pennsylvania (Edmonds, Mogul & Shea, 20015). Thus, the Maternal Care Coalition, MCC, was established to focus on providing low-income mom’s and families within Southeastern prenatal and postpartum care and support services. Their mission is to “improve maternal and child health and well-being

The article shows a correlation between the lack of prenatal care with infant mortality, and inadequate prenatal care with low birth-weight. Additionally, White women who delivered on a private service and received inadequate prenatal care experienced only slightly risk of low birth-weight. On the other hand, White and Black women who delivered on general service and received inadequate prenatal care experienced significantly higher risk of low birth-weight.

Regardless of the amount of alcohol consumed during pregnancy infants are in jeopardy of lifelong disabilities if better choices are not made. Devastatingly, this completely preventable condition is left at the mother’s discretion and lies solely on the patient’s education regarding alcohol consumption during pregnancy. Informing pregnant women (or even women who are interested in family planning) of the potential risk factors for their future child will ultimately lead to better decisions during prenatal

Maternity care in the United States is not as well developed as maternity care in several other wealthy countries. Maternity care in America is extremely expensive; therefore many women choose not to get the care they need to maintain a healthy pregnancy and baby. Therefore, the infant mortality rate in America is much higher than it should be. Also, women’s overall physical and mental health during and after pregnancy is not as good as it could be. The United States government should provide a way for every single woman to have access to free or exceedingly cheap maternity care so that all of the women and babies in America have a chance to get the professional care that they need to have a healthy pregnancy and baby.

Access to prenatal care is also known to be a determinant of high infant mortality rates. Just like almost everything else,

Maternal death rates are higher in poor women than they are rich women. Women that need contraceptives to protect themselves from harm cannot get to them as easily as rich women can. (Wagner 3) Refusing poor women medication leads to medical complications. Consequently, the high price of contraceptives should be lowered to be accessible for women of all wealth and classes due to the fact that it could save lives. Refusing women these prescriptions that can save their lives is an inhumane behavior and without lowering the prices, the population will continue to treat these women poorly. A factor in the high prices is the amount of money the government and hospitals receive through treating patients. The problem is that there is more money in treating a patient than preventing a disease or virus from happening in the first place. Being in poverty goes hand in hand with health. Without money, receiving the medical care needed is nearly impossible. (Torr 25) Even having an opportunity to lower health care prices or preventing diseases, the people in charge of this matter may hesitate to due to the high amount of money they receive in treating an

A study in South Africa also found a negative effect of distance on the utilization of health care services. It was found that a significant logarithmic relationship between distance from clinic and usage by the homesteads (r 2 = 0. 774, p<0.0001). The distance usage index values ranged between 31 and 198 (mean = 110 per cent, SD =43.7) for 12 clinics and this successfully highlighted clinic usage patterns across the district (Tanser et al. 2001). Distance to Guatemala City is significantly associated with the use of care during pregnancy, especially biomedical care. Women in more other communities are more likely to see some provider in a pregnancy month, but when they do, they are much less likely to see a biomedical one. This variable may

Medicaid and Commercial insurance plans require that newborns be enrolled in insurance within 30-31 days from a date of birth. Currently, the nonmember policy states that for non-member Medicaid newborns there is the option of being treated at KP for the first 60 days of life. I would make a guess that the same policy would apply for uninsured and commercial insured non-members.

Every mother and child has the right to health. And many people are under poverty to get the proper health service they need to be in high income states. So, government need to uplift the standard of living elimination of economic barriers that women face help reduce maternal and child mortality. WHO assists low income states to reduce maternal mortality (Hunt & Mesquita, REDUCING MATERNAL MORTALITY, The contribution of the right to the highest attainable standard of health).Non- governmental organizations can increase the funding to improve the health service and also establish employment schemes according to the needs of the community. (Aboriginal and Tooress Strait Island Peoples, n.d.). Similarly, government can come up with new schemes such as payment schemes, According
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High-income women virtually have at least four antenatal care visits, are attended by a skilled health worker during childbirth and receive postpartum care whereas only 40% of poor women with pregnancies had the recommended antenatal care visits in 2015. Poverty, lack of information, inadequate services, cultural practices are other factors that limit access to quality maternal health services. The barriers that prevent women from seeking care must be addressed at all levels of the health

In the first article I went over was published by the Family Planning and Perspective journal. The article titled “Public Sources of Prenatal Care Are Not Necessarily the Best for Poor Women” written by M.L. O’ Connor, gives information about women that receive regular routine prenatal care from Medicare or other government funded programs , still do not have as adequate of care as those who attend private doctors. The outcome for mothers who seen private physicians in contrast to ones that work out of community clinics

He and his fellow researchers employed doulas into the social health model of care and placed them in-home, throughout the pregnancy, only to uncover not only a soiree of benefits to the birthing mother as previously described, but also implications on infant mortality (Gentry et.al, 2010). This intervention is similar to home visitation programs provided by birthing professionals in countries who boast lower infant mortality outcomes and maternal outcomes (Gentry et.al, 2010)—raising interest to the correlative factors between the two. However, there is little research following in his footsteps. It would be useful for researchers to study infant mortality and the induction of birth support professionals prenatal and post-natal, to provide answers as to whether this professional could decrease US infant mortality numbers specifically. Moreover, this research should be conducted across populations with varied degrees of diversity, access to prenatal care, and social economic factors, to determine if these extraneous factors determine level of impact.