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Title Childbirth in South Asia : old paradoxes and new challenges / edited by Clémence Jullien and Roger Jeffery
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2021]
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 342 pages)
Summary 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 stigmatise women who deliver at home. 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. This book illustrates the continuing paradoxes as well as the new challenges linked to childbirth in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 21, 2022)
Subject Birth customs -- South Asia
Childbirth -- South Asia
Women's health services -- South Asia
Birth customs.
Childbirth.
Women's health services.
South Asia.
Form Electronic book
Author Jullien, Clémence, editor.
Jeffery, Roger, editor.
ISBN 9780190993290
0190993294