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Author Mills, Lisa Nicole, 1967- author

Title The limits of trust : the millennium development goals, maternal health, and health policy in Mexico / Lisa Nicole Mills
Published Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource
Series McGill-Queen's studies in gender, sexuality, and social justice in the global south ; 3
McGill-Queen's studies in gender, sexuality, and social justice in the global south ; 3.
Contents Mexico and the implementation of the Maternal Health Millennium Development Goal -- Maternal health and health sector reform in Mexico -- Guerrero : the limits of the local -- Chiapas : the challenges of NGO collaboration -- Oaxaca : the impact of doctors' mobilization
Summary When the United Nations announced the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000, approximately half a million women worldwide died each year from complications associated with pregnancy and childbirth. The fifth MDG aimed to reduce the maternal mortality rate by 75 per cent between 1990 and 2015, but by the target date, the goal had not been reached. In The Limits of Trust Lisa Nicole Mills investigates the reasons why Mexico in particular did not meet its objective. Focusing on the states of Guerrero, Chiapas, and Oaxaca, where maternal mortality rates are the highest in the country, Mills looks into how MDG 5 has been implemented in Mexico, how it has been experienced by individuals and groups, what obstacles have been encountered, and what factors have facilitated improvements in maternal health. Using data gathered from interviews with NGOs, government officials, and health care workers, the book argues that government and feminist NGO efforts to build trust in the health care system have fallen short because of systemic failures to protect women's rights and enhance the quality of health care. In Mexico a woman's risk of dying from a pregnancy-related complication is five times higher than in developed countries. The Limits of Trust explores the realities of implementing maternal health initiatives on the ground in rural, remote, and impoverished areas, and the steps that can be taken to successfully combat maternal mortality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Millennium Development Goals
SUBJECT Millennium Development Goals
Millennium Development Goals fast
Subject Maternal health services -- Mexico
Pregnant women -- Services for -- Mexico
Pregnant women -- Health and hygiene -- Mexico
Pregnancy -- Complications -- Mexico -- Prevention
Mothers -- Mortality -- Mexico -- Prevention
Medical policy -- Mexico
Pregnant women.
Mothers -- Mortality.
Medical policy.
Pregnant Women
Maternal Health Services
Pregnancy Complications -- prevention & control
Maternal Mortality
Health Policy
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- World -- Caribbean & Latin American.
Pregnant women
Mothers -- Mortality
Maternal health services
Medical policy
Mothers -- Mortality -- Prevention
Pregnancy -- Complications -- Prevention
Pregnant women -- Health and hygiene
Pregnant women -- Services for
SUBJECT Mexico https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008800
Subject Mexico
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773552500
0773552502
9780773552517
0773552510