Maternal Health, Pregnancy-Related Morbidity, and Death Among Indigenous Women of Mexico and Central America

This ambitious sourcebook surveys the state of indigenous women’s reproductive health in Mexico and Central America. Noted advocates, practitioners, and researchers review the multiple barriers to care endemic to indigenous people in rural areas compounded by longstanding gender inequities, as seen in topics such as the need for family planning and the prevalence of obstetric violence. Special emphasis is placed on indigenous culture and folkways—from midwives and birth attendants to traditional healing and spiritual practices—and how they may effectively coexist with modern medical technology. Throughout these chapters, the main theme stands clear: indigenous women’s right to a successful pregnancy and culturally respectful care, leading to the birth of healthy children.

A sampling of the topics:

•          The importance of speaking indigenous languages in maternal health care.
  
•          Pregnancy, birth, and babies: motherhood and modernization in a Yucatec village.
  
•          The consequences of social inequality: maternal morbidity and mortality in Honduran Miskito communities.
  
•          Childbirth as a lens of medicalization on a Guatemalan plantation.
•          Overcoming barriers to improving maternal health in Nicaragua.    

                                

Maternal Health, Pregnancy-Related Morbidity and Death Among Indigenous Women of Mexico and Central America is designed for NGOs, administrators, physicians, public health specialists, nurses and midwives, social scientists, epidemiologists, international aid organizations, governmental agencies, and others involved in the planning and implementation of maternal and reproductive healthcare of indigenous women in Mexico and Central America, and possibly other geographical areas. 

• ISBN: 978-3-319-71537-7
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Fecha Publicación: 05/04/2018
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés