Improving adolescent maternal health.

Improving Child and Maternal Health: Why Adolescent Girl Programming Matters

Factors influencing utilisation of maternal health services by adolescent mothers in Low-and middle-income countries: a systematic review

BACKGROUND Adolescent mothers aged 15-19 years are known to have greater risks of maternal morbidity and mortality compared with women aged 20-24 years, mostly due to their unique biological, sociological and economic status. Nowhere Is the burden of disease greater than in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). Understanding factors that influence adolescent utilisation of essential maternal...

Improving child outcomes through maternal mental health interventions.

This commentary will provide a general overview of the public health considerations of maternal mental illness, both from a global perspective as well as from the South African context. The paper will outline the consequences of maternal mental illness for mothers as well as their offspring, through the life stages from pregnancy until adulthood. The paper then describes the Perinatal Mental He...

News Release For immediate release International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) launches a global framework for action to improve the diagnosis and care of women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and to improve adolescent, preconception and maternal nutrition

Vancouver, BC, Tuesday, October 6, 2015— The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) announced today at the XXI World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics important guidelines aimed at improving maternal health, decreasing the incidence of maternal, fetal and neonatal morbidity and reducing the burden of non-communicable diseases globally. These two sets of guidelines prov...

Improving maternal health to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: a youth lens.

The fifth Millennium Development Goal (MDG) aims to improve maternal health. The 2 targets set for this goal are to “reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio” and “achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health”. Six indicators have been selected to help track progress towards these targets: maternal mortality ratio; proportion of births attended ...

Maternal Experience of Abuse in Childhood and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescent and Adult Offspring: a 21-year Longitudinal Study.

BACKGROUND Intergenerational effects of child abuse have been documented, but it is unknown whether maternal childhood abuse influences offspring mental health in adolescence or adulthood. METHODS To examine whether maternal experience of childhood abuse is associated with depressive symptoms in adolescent and young adult offspring, we linked data from two large longitudinal cohorts of women ...