By WHO Regional Office for Africa
The healthiness of the folk: the African nearby health and wellbeing record is the 1st report back to concentrate on the well-being of the 738 million humans dwelling within the African area of the area well-being association. This fully-illustrated 196-page document offers specialist research of all of the key components of public healthiness in Africa. It additionally comprises the main complete annex of well-being records at the sector to this point.
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In the 1990s, the level of antenatal care rose by 4% to a currently estimated 70% of women in subSaharan Africa receiving at least one antenatal consultation. Millions more lives could be saved if health systems were developed to ensure that services are of high quality and extended to everyone who needs them. This means providing every woman with skilled care during childbirth and emergency obstetric and neonatal care if complications arise. It also means ensuring children’s access to quality services for prevention and treatment of childhhood illnesses.
PSFUIBOZFBSTPGIVNBOJUBSJBO DSJTJTCFUXFFOBOE Source: World health report 2005. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2005. Maternal, newborn and child health Chapter 2 21 skilled attendants assist in only 43% of the deliveries in the African Region. The remaining births are assisted by traditional birth attendants, relatives and neighbbours, while some mothers give birth alone. In some parts of the African Region, about one-third of pregnant women are adolescents. Adolescent mothers face a greater risk of death in pregnancy and childbirth than women aged 20 or over.
The initiative has succeeded in drawing more attention to maternal health over the last two decades. Critics, however, argue that it failed to bring about a broad-based improvement in this area of public health because countries were not given the technical assistance they needed to translate its recommendations into practice. Moreover, donors and humanitarian agencies failed to coordinate efforts well enough to fill the gaps in public health services in the African Region, leading to a patchwork approach.
