In Kenya, the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) is high, with 488 deaths per every 100,000 live births per year, largely because women do not give birth under the care of skilled health providers. These high rates of maternal deaths are attributed to well-known and preventable causes. They ...
and provision of free maternity services in public facilities in 201311. The maternal mortality rate (MMR) in the 2014 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) remained high
MOTHERS -- MortalityKenya, a developing Third World nation, has made a commitment to slow her population growth rate by actively promoting Maternal Child Health (MCH) and Family Planning (FP) programs. Present day programs are designed to promote the concept of smaller families, spacing of ...
Death rate Net migration rate Population distribution Urbanization Major cities - population Sex ratio Mother's mean age at first birth Maternal mortality rate Infant mortality rate Life expectancy at birth Total fertility rate Contraceptive prevalence rate ...
maternal mortality rate. Gender inequities also make fertility reduction difficult; women on average are less-educated, participate less in paid employment, and often have little say in decisions over childbearing and their own reproductive health. However, even if the birth rate were significantly ...
Statistically, the maternal mortality rate per 100,000 births is at 530 (0.53%), the under-five mortality rate per 1,000 live births is 86 (8.6%) and the neonatal mortality rate per 1,000 live births as a percentage of the under-five mortality rate is 33 (3.3%). Furthermore the ...
Maternal mortality ratioNeonatal mortality rate and health facility delivery services utilizationKenya abolished delivery fees in all public health facilities through a presidential directive effective on June 1, 2013 with an aim of promoting health facility delivery service utilization and reducing pregnancy...
There was a discrepancy between rate (SCTr) and the percentage distribution of patients per province. The Kambes of the Mijikenda group in the Coast Province with the highest SCTr (35%) constituted only 8.5%, but the Luos with a SCTr of 28%, 58% of the total patient population in Kenya...
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on international society. Amid such circumstances, the access to healthcare in developing countries is becoming increasingly difficult. In the Republic of Kenya, the maternal mortality rate and the under-five mortality rate are 68 times2and 22 ...
Maternal Mortality. Data on the survival of respondents' sisters were used to calculate a ma- ternal mortality ratio for the 10-year period before the survey, which was estimated as 414 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. This represents a decline from the rate of 590 maternal deaths ...