In Koidu in Sierra Leone, a new maternity centre is being built to help in the continued battle against high maternal mortality rates. What's more, on the construction site, 60% of the workers are women.
#GoodNews #SierraLeone #Maternity #Unit #Hospital #Construction #Women #Health #Birth #Power
#goodnews #SierraLeone #maternity #Unit #hospital #construction #women #health #birth #power
Ambiguous impulses for your own mental cinema. Handcarved rubber stamps and acrylic colours on DIN-A4 paper, no NFTs:
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From 23 Aug: One in five women feel mistreated during maternity care. Among black, hispanic and multiracial mothers, 40 percent said they had been mistreated during pregnancy or childbirth. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/22/health/pregnancy-mistreatment-health-care.html #healthcare #maternalhealth #maternity #discrimination
#discrimination #maternity #Maternalhealth #healthcare
@KT he will want live video feed of every sexual encounter next. This is just gross, intrusive and surely violates HIPPAA. People are entitled to some privacy. #privatelives #inappropriate #maternity #obgyn
#privatelives #inappropriate #maternity #obgyn
31 year old Black woman dies of a preventable blood clot during delivery at Inglewood's only hospital, which is now closing its #maternity ward. https://californiahealthline.org/news/article/maternity-care-bias-accountability-april-valentine/
Seven former employees of #twitter (now renamed #X ) have filed a complaint against their ex-employer for unlawful discrimination, claiming that their dismissals at the end of 2022 were directly linked to their gender, age, ethnic origin or the fact that they were returning from #maternity leave.
Ambiguous impulses for your own mental cinema. Handcarved rubber stamps and acrylic colours on DIN-A4 paper, no NFTs:
#kunst #contemporaryArt #makeArtNotWar #mentalCinema #handCarvedStamp #noNFT #saveBiodiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #fckFdp #fckAfd #fckPtn #mojaBabcia #familyAlbum #memories #screamingheads #cows #industriallivestockfarming #methan #meat #emblematy #fertility #fruitfulness #maternity #feminity #feminism
#kunst #contemporaryart #makeartnotwar #mentalcinema #handcarvedstamp #noNFT #savebiodiversity #climateactionnow #systemchange #EndFossilFuels #fckfdp #fckafd #fckptn #mojababcia #familyalbum #memories #screamingheads #cows #industriallivestockfarming #methan #meat #emblematy #fertility #fruitfulness #maternity #feminity #feminism
wow: Maternity care deserts are spreading across the U.S., March of Dimes report finds
More than 5.6 million women live in counties with no or limited access to maternity care
#maternity #healthcare #women #WarOnWomen https://www.salon.com/2023/08/02/maternity-care-deserts-are-spreading-across-the-us-march-of-dimes-report-finds/
#waronwomen #women #Healthcare #maternity
Ambiguous impulses for your own mental cinema. Handcarved rubber stamps and acrylic colours on DIN-A4 paper, no NFTs:
#kunst #contemporaryArt #makeArtNotWar #mentalCinema #handCarvedStamp #noNFT #saveBiodiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #fckFdp #fckAfd #fckPtn #emblematy #viewsofwomen #perceptionofwomen #fertility #feminity #maternity #reproduction #feminism #myheart #hearts
#kunst #contemporaryart #makeartnotwar #mentalcinema #handcarvedstamp #noNFT #savebiodiversity #climateactionnow #systemchange #EndFossilFuels #fckfdp #fckafd #fckptn #emblematy #viewsofwomen #perceptionofwomen #fertility #feminity #maternity #reproduction #feminism #myheart #hearts
by #KenyaHunter in #CapitalB:
"According to the study, 63 of the 113 deaths during that span were Black women, who were also two times more likely to die from pregnancy-related illness than white women in the state. A DPH spokesperson told Capital B Atlanta that 85% of the deaths involving Black women were preventable."
https://atlanta.capitalbnews.org/maternal-mortality-report/
#BlackWomen #WomensHealth #health #healthcare #pregnancy #maternity #MaternalMortality #mortality #cardiomyopathy #embolisms #classism #racism
#kenyahunter #capitalb #blackwomen #womenshealth #health #healthcare #pregnancy #maternity #maternalmortality #mortality #cardiomyopathy #embolisms #classism #racism
Crisis in #NHSEngland #maternity units revealed as 21 rated ‘substandard’
#CareQualityCommission finds many services inadequate, needing improvement or shut over #safety concerns
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/09/nhs-maternity-units-crisis-care-quality-commission-substandard #ToryPoliciesInAction #BreakThenPrivatise #ToryInhumanity #NHS #Health #GTTO #LivesAtRisk
#livesatrisk #gtto #health #nhs #toryinhumanity #breakthenprivatise #torypoliciesinaction #safety #carequalitycommission #maternity #NHSEngland
U.S. maternal mortality rates have more than doubled in the last two decades : NPR
>And while the study found mortality rates remain "unacceptably high among all racial and ethnic groups across the U.S.," the worst outcomes were among #Black women, #NativeAmerican and Alaska Native people. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/07/04/1185904749/u-s-maternal-deaths-keep-rising-heres-who-is-most-at-risk #maternity #pregnancy
#black #nativeamerican #maternity #pregnancy
@politicalscience adding to the previous toot to share the panel that I’ll be chairing at #IPSA2023 (and where you can read/hear a version of what I’ve been working on for my #PhD ). Panel RC07.04 #Women and #Politics in the #GlobalSouth is titled Sexual, (Non) #ReproductiveHealth and #Maternity in the Global South. It will take place on July 19th at 11 am (Buenos Aires). Looking forward to it!
#ipsa2023 #phd #women #politics #globalsouth #reproductivehealth #maternity
Estoy comiendo nachos del suelo, algunos están rechupeteados
Central Okanagan at risk of losing #maternity services within next year due to #DoctorShortage - https://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/430018/Central-Okanagan-at-risk-of-losing-maternity-services-within-next-year-due-to-doctor-shortage “the #CentralOkanagan Division of Family Practice warned local doctors of the shrinking pool of #obstetrics physicians in the region.
“The Central Okanagan is a growing community with a climbing birth rate. Births have increased at #KelownaGeneralHospital for the past two years. In contrast, the number of obstetrical providers who can attend these births is declining,”
#maternity #doctorshortage #centralokanagan #obstetrics #kelownageneralhospital
U.S. birth rate remains flat; same trend in Key Biscayne :
“We’re as busy as ever,” said Dr. Jorge Mendia, an OB-GYN who practices at Mercy Hospital, but he noted some differences from the national data.
#birth #CDC #COVID19 #fertility #JorgeMendia #maternity #OBGYN #Pandemic
https://kbindependent.org/2023/06/01/u-s-birth-rate-remains-flat-same-trend-in-key-biscayne/
#birth #cdc #COVID19 #fertility #jorgemendia #maternity #obgyn #pandemic
From 08 May: Unwanted Epidurals, Untreated Pain: Black Women Tell Their Birth Stories - Regardless of income or education, Black mothers have worse birth outcomes. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/06/upshot/black-births-maternal-mortality.html #racism #unitedstates #maternity #birth #healthcare
#healthcare #birth #maternity #unitedstates #racism