{"id":174473,"date":"2022-03-15T20:50:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T15:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=174473"},"modified":"2022-03-15T20:50:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T15:20:50","slug":"may-all-mothers-live-on-maternal-mortality-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/may-all-mothers-live-on-maternal-mortality-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"May all mothers live: on Maternal Mortality rate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>India\u2019s maternal mortality ratio has decreased from 122 to 103 (maternal deaths per lakh live births) between 2015-17 and 2017-19, shown by SRS data.\u00a0 India\u2019s SDG target is to bring its MMR below 70 by 2030.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What can be done to improve further? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Understanding disparities: <\/strong>Need for different state or region wise solutions. For instance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Kerala <\/strong>&#8211; MMR improved from 42 to 30, showing pushing up standards from already high levels.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Uttar Pradesh <\/strong>&#8211; MMR is 167, but it has delivered a dramatic 49 points improvement from 216.<\/li>\n<li><strong>West Bengal<\/strong> &#8211; MMR worsened from 94 to 109.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Centre can assess different schemes objectively and increase investment or introduce reform wherever needed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Collect data on how pandemic has hurt reproductive care services: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Need to prevent reversal of gains as major interventions such as Institutional deliveries and access to Asha workers was reduced.<\/li>\n<li>Need to ensure these services are back on track as Covid deaths drop.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Beyond this, India should take inspiration from countries that have already brought their MMR down to single digits \u2013 like Belarus, Poland and the UK.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong>This post is based on the article <strong>\u201cMay all mothers live:\u201d <\/strong>published in<strong> Live Mint<\/strong> on<strong> 15<sup>th<\/sup> March 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: India\u2019s maternal mortality ratio has decreased from 122 to 103 (maternal deaths per lakh live births) between 2015-17 and 2017-19, shown by SRS data.\u00a0 India\u2019s SDG target is to bring its MMR below 70 by 2030. What can be done to improve further? Understanding disparities: Need for different state or region wise solutions. For&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/may-all-mothers-live-on-maternal-mortality-rate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">May all mothers live: on Maternal Mortality rate<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10501],"class_list":["post-174473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-live-mint","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704917526},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}