Title Maternal death and pregnancy-related morbidity among indigenous women of Mexico and Central America : an anthropological, epidemiological, and biomedical approach / David A. Schwartz, editor

Published Cham : Springer, 2018

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Description 1 online resource Series Global maternal and child health: medical, anthropological, and public health perspectives Global maternal and child health: medical, anthropological, and public health perspectives Contents 880-01 Intro; Series Editorial Advisory Board; Foreword; The Reproductive and Maternal Health of Indigenous Women Is a Human Right; Acknowledgments; Contents; About the Contributors and Editor; Part I: Reproductive and Maternal Health Among Indigenous Women of Mexico & Central America; 1: Introduction to Indigenous Women and Their Pregnancies: Misunderstood, Stigmatized, and at Risk; 1.1 Maternal Death in Developing Countries; 1.2 Indigenous People; 1.3 Maternal Death Among Indigenous Women in Mexico and Central America 880-01/(S 3.2.8.5 Polymorphisms of Glutathione S-Transferases and Preeclampsia in Maya-ƯMestizo Women in Mexico3.2.8.6 Cytokine Differences and Preeclampsia Among Mexican Maya-Mestizo and Mexican Women; 3.2.8.7 Polymorphisms in the TNF-α Promoter Gene and Preeclampsia Among Mayan Mestizo Women in Mexico; 3.3 Obstetrical Hemorrhage; 3.3.1 Causes of Obstetrical Hemorrhage; 3.3.2 Uterine Atony; 3.3.3 Placental Abruption; 3.3.4 Retained Placenta; 3.3.5 Coagulopathy, Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation, and Hemorrhage; 3.4 Maternal Infection and Puerperal Sepsis; References 1.4 A Multidisciplinary Approach to Improving Maternal Survival Among Indigenous WomenReferences; 2: Aztec Pregnancy: Archaeological and Cultural Foundations for Motherhood and Childbearing in Ancient Mesoamerica; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Aztecs; 2.3 The Florentine Codex and Friar Bernardino de Sahagún; 2.4 Motherhood and Fertility Deities of the Aztecs; 2.4.1 Tlazolteotl: A Goddess of Midwives; 2.4.2 Chalchiuhtlicue: Patron Goddess of Childbirth; 2.4.3 Cihuacoatl: Goddess of Midwives and the Sweat Bath; 2.4.4 Coatlicue: Patron Goddess of Childbirth 2.4.5 Tzitzimitl: Goddess of Fertility2.4.6 Ixtlilton: God of Medicine and Healing; 2.5 Aztec Pregnancy and the Tlamatlquiticitl (Midwife); 2.6 The Birth of the Baby; 2.7 Multiple Births; 2.8 Fetal Death and Abortion; 2.9 Maternal Death; 2.10 Cihuateteo: Goddesses of Women Dying During Childbirth; References; 3: Hypertensive Mothers, Obstetric Hemorrhage, and Infections: Biomedical Aspects of Maternal Death Among Indigenous Women in Mexico and Central America; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Hypertensive Diseases of Pregnancy: Preeclampsia and Eclampsia; 3.2.1 Epidemiology 3.2.2 Pathophysiology3.2.3 The Placenta and Preeclampsia; 3.2.4 Decidua; 3.2.5 Kidneys; 3.2.6 Liver; 3.2.7 Central Nervous System; 3.2.8 Hypertensive Diseases of Pregnancy in Indigenous Women in Mexico and Central America; 3.2.8.1 Calcium Supplementation and Preeclampsia in Mayan Women in Guatemala; 3.2.8.2 Prepregnancy Body Mass Index and Preeclampsia in Maya-Mestizo Women in Mexico; 3.2.8.3 Nitrous Oxide Synthase Genotype and Preeclampsia in Maya-Mestizo Women in Mexico; 3.2.8.4 Isozyme Polymorphisms and Preeclampsia in Maya-Mestizo Women in Mexico Summary This ambitious sourcebook surveys both the traditional basis for and the present state of indigenous women's reproductive health in Mexico and Central America. Noted practitioners, specialists, and researchers take an interdisciplinary approach to analyze the multiple barriers for access and care to indigenous women that had been complicated by longstanding gender inequities, poverty, stigmatization, lack of education, war, obstetrical violence, and differences in language and customs, all of which contribute to unnecessary maternal morbidity and mortality. Emphasis is placed on indigenous cultures and folkways--from traditional midwives and birth attendants to indigenous botanical medication and traditional healing and spiritual practices--and how they may effectively coexist with modern biomedical care. Throughout these chapters, the main theme is clear: the rights of indigenous women to culturally respective reproductive health care and a successful pregnancy leading to the birth of healthy children. A sampling of the topics: Motherhood and modernization in a Yucatec village Maternal morbidity and mortality in Honduran Miskito communities Solitary birth and maternal mortality among the Rarámuri of Northern Mexico Maternal morbidity and mortality in the rural Trifino region of Guatemala The traditional Ngäbe-Buglé midwives of Panama Characterizations of maternal death among Mayan women in Yucatan, Mexico Unintended pregnancy, unsafe abortion, and unmet need in Guatemala Maternal Death and Pregnancy-Related Morbidity Among Indigenous Women of Mexico and Central America is designed for anthropologists and other social scientists, physicians, nurses and midwives, public health specialists, epidemiologists, global health workers, international aid organizations and NGOs, governmental agencies, administrators, policy-makers, and others involved in the planning and implementation of maternal and reproductive health care of indigenous women in Mexico and Central America, and possibly other geographical areas Notes Includes index Print version record Subject Mothers -- Mortality -- Mexico Pregnancy -- Complications -- Mexico Mothers -- Mortality -- Central America Pregnancy -- Complications -- Central America Mothers -- Mortality. Reproductive health services. Indians of North America. Maternal Death -- prevention & control Maternal Mortality Pregnancy Complications -- prevention & control Reproductive Health Services Pregnancy Complications -- epidemiology Indians, North American Indians, Central American Reproductive medicine. Medical anthropology. Epidemiology & medical statistics. Gynaecology & obstetrics. Materno-fetal medicine. MEDICAL -- Gynecology & Obstetrics. Reproductive health services Indians of North America Mothers -- Mortality Pregnancy -- Complications SUBJECT Mexico https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008800 Central America https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002489 Subject Central America Mexico Form Electronic book Author Schwartz, David A., editor. ISBN 9783319715384 3319715380

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