Editorial: Maternal health indicators signal optimism

Maternal health Indicators Signal Optimism

Maternal health is a major health priority for international agencies and the Ethiopian Government. Many low income countries including Ethiopia, made substantial improvements in maternal health achieving the Millennium Development Goal -5. According to World Health Organization estimation, maternal death decreased almost by half in the last 15 years globally (2). The last five demographic heal...

Maternal health: there is cause for optimism.

Maternal health is a major health priority for international agencies, the African Union, and the South African Government. In 2000, all United Nations (UN) member states agreed to substantial improvements in maternal health, defined by Millenium Development Goal 5 (MDG5), which includes the specific target of reducing maternal mortality by 75% between 1990 and 2015. While many countries are ma...

Editorial: The importance of optimism.

Optimism describes a state in which one tends to look at the positive side of a situation and, in being optimistic, one holds an expectation of a favourable or positive outcome. Its opposite is pessimism, which refers to an inclination to expect a negative or poor outcome or a perception that situations are overwhelmingly bleak and unable to be salvaged. There are days when it appears as if a c...

International maternal health indicators and middle-income countries: Russia.

Maternal Health in Ghana: Investigating the Impact of the National Health Insurance Scheme on Maternal Health Indicators

Reducing maternal mortality has been a global priority for more than two decades now, and Millennium Development Goal 5 targets a 75% reduction in maternal mortality ratios between 1990 and 2015. While some countries in sub-Saharan Africa have shown modest success in lowering their maternal mortality ratios, overall progress in reducing maternal mortality in the region has been Maternal Health ...