Global Health Class

N E P A L - Child and Maternal Health  Nepal is a country located in South Asia, throughout the years there have been many improvement to the country. USAID states that "Investments in essential health services have helped double the life expectancy since 1960." With this being said the number of faculties with trained and skilled healthcare workers have improved as well in all parts of Nepal. This has helped bring maternal deaths down "by more than 75 percent since 1990" and decreasing the amount of under five "child mortality by more than 66 percent over the past 20 years. These improving numbers show just how much public health advocates and funding can go along way to help those in countries that need it the most. USAID "supports the more than 50,000-strong national Female Community Health Volunteer Program in providing vitamin A supplementation, immunizations, family planning counseling, safe motherhood interventions, co...

N I G E R I A  The population in Nigeria in 2018 was 195 million, Nigeria is known to be "the country of the young" meaning that out of the 195 million Nigerians, 31 million are children 5 years of age or under. There are at least 7 million babies born each year in Nigeria which makes you wonder are the children being given the necessary care they need. The trends in under five mortality rate has gone down in Nigeria since 1990. In the graph to the right you can barely see the numbers however, the number of deaths per 1,000 lives birth have dropped significantly. In 2018 it was 119.9 numbers of death per 1,000 lives birth.  The Government has seemed to find ways to help mothers out and provide the necessary care needed for them and their new babies but what about keeping the kids safe after they are born? The Nigerian government still has tried to improve its country but still is far from over. " While the government has s...

A F G H A N I S T A N - Maternal Health Located in Southeast Asia, Afghanistan is the only country within the region to  still show relative high numbers of maternal mortality. Within the demonstration to the right you can see how Afghanistan numbers for maternal mortality range between  (500-999) out of 100,000 live births, which is very high compared to the rest in the Southeast Asia region where the numbers are declining.   In the news we rarely hear anything related to maternal health in Afghanistan, it is known for being a war zone. The population was roughly around 35 million in 2017 and it is a region in South Asia that is not known to be a tourist location because it is deemed unsafe because of the hostile environment.Children and mothers and women of all ages die from preventable causes in Afghanistan because they do not have the access to many healthcare treatments or fa...

I N D O N E S I A Maternal Health     Indonesia also known as Republic of Indonesia reported had a population in 2017 of roughly 264 million. Many people who do not know much about the country of Indonesia is seen as an emerging lower middle class country where about 25.9 million Indonesian still live below the poverty line. Although there is still a somewhat large portion of upper middle class Indonesians not all have the luxury to afford healthcare.  To right is a graph that demonstrates how only 58 percent of those who live in poverty do not have the access they need to have a skilled birth attendant while in labor compared to those who do have the access to provide for the mother and baby with a skilled birth attendant during labor. On the United Nations Population Fund for Indonesia states that " Despite a high proportion of deliveries by skilled birth attendants, the Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) contin...