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Debate #406 · Population, health and human development

Are Pakistan's poor maternal health outcomes driven more by culture or state neglect?

Asked 1 time · 1 year · Gender Studies
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Examiners want: Women's health issues set in their social, cultural and demographic context, maternal mortality drivers, and policy responses

The questions

2024
CSS · Gender Studies · Discuss

An Egyptian doctor Mahmoud Fathalla uses the term ‘maternity death road' while discussing issues of women's maternal health. Discuss women's health issues in context with Pakistan's social, cultural and demographic situation.

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Women married by age 18 (PDHS 2017-18): 29% of women age 25-49, down from 35% in 2012-13 (2017-18 (vs 2012-13))NIPS and ICF, Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey 2017-18Adolescent birth rate: 41 births per 1,000 women aged 15–19. (2021)UN Women Data Hub

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News about this debate watches for: maternal mortality, lady health workers, maternal health, skilled birth attendance, anaemia, early marriage, reproductive health, pdhs, unfpa, basic health units.