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Childbirth in South Asia: Old Challenges and New Paradoxes

Author :  Clémence Jullien and Roger Jeffery

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Country
India
Publisher
Oxford University Press, New Delhi
ISBN 9780190130718
Format HardBound
Language English
Year of Publication 2021
Bib. Info xiii,342p.;23 cm. Includes Index.
Product Weight 500 gms.
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Across the world, the conditions of childbirth are changing but not all in the same direction. Women in Western countries press for more home deliveries, and to confront some of the effects of the over-medicalisation of motherhood. Most developing countries, by contrast, promote deliveries in clinics and hospitals, and stigmatize women who deliver at home. Mobile phones and social media are pressed into service to identify high-risk mothers and to offer them pregnancy and delivery advice. All of the South Asian countries have been accused of neglecting childbirth and women's healthcare. The Millennium Development Goals (2000-2015) prompted important new Government schemes across South Asia, designed to address the issues of safe motherhood and childbirth. The Sustainable Development Goals (2015-2030) now mandate further efforts to reduce maternal and neo-natal mortality.

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