Overview
- Examines reproductive health and the causes and prevention of pregnancy-related disease and death among indigenous women in Mexico and Central America -- a major public health and humanitarian issue
- Utilizes a unique approach to understanding and solving the persistent problems with reproductive care and poor obstetrical outcomes among indigenous women in these nations by incorporating the opinions of internationally-known experts in anthropology, public health, epidemiology, midwifery, clinical medicine, and allied fields
- Includes issues of importance to the reproductive care of indigenous women of Mexico and Central America, such as medical complications of pregnancy, access to obstetrical care, training and use of midwives and traditional birth attendants, unsafe abortion, obstetrical violence, teenage pregnancy, unmet need for family planning, inadequacy of epidemiological surveillance, traditional ethnomedicine, disparities of healthcare between indigenous and non-indigenous women, and others
- Is a comprehensive resource of 40 chapters with numerous illustrative photographs, figures, maps, and diagrams
- Assembles a team of expert authors have direct experience with indigenous maternal healthcare in this region -- many are from and work in Mexico and Central America
Part of the book series: Global Maternal and Child Health (GMCH)
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Table of contents (40 chapters)
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Reproductive and Maternal Health Among Indigenous Women of Mexico & Central America
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Mexico
Keywords
- maternal morbidity and mortality
- indigenous women's health
- reproductive health
- maternal health
- pregnancy complications
- traditional birth attendants
- skilled birth attendants
- epidemiology
- unsafe abortion
- HIV/AIDS
- obstetrical violence
- teenage pregnancy
- anthropology
- global health
- family planning
- Mexico
- Central America
- midwifery and midwives
- native women
- biomedicine
About this book
A sampling of the topics:
- Motherhood and modernization in a Yucatec village
- Maternal morbidity and mortality in Honduran Miskito communities
- Solitary birth and maternal mortality among the Rarámuri of Northern Mexico Maternal morbidity and mortality in the rural Trifino region of Guatemala
- The traditional Ngäbe-Buglé midwives of Panama
- Characterizations of maternal death among Mayan women in Yucatan, Mexico
- Unintended pregnancy, unsafe abortion, and unmet need in Guatemala
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
David Schwartz, MD, MS Hyg, FCAP, has an educational background in anthropology, medicine, public health, and epidemiology. He specializes in obstetrical and perinatal pathology and medical epidemiology, and has a professional interest in reproductive health, maternal disease, and maternal death in both resource-rich and resource-poor countries. Dr. Schwartz has organized and directed large national and international investigations of women’s health, obstetrical disease, and perinatal pathology and epidemiology for many government agencies including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and several foreign governments, and has consulted and taught in these specialties in resource-poor nations. He has conducted extensive research in obstetrical pathology, and has been the recipient of grants from the NIH, CDC, and the Pediatric AIDS Foundation. He has a new multi-authoredtextbook regarding maternal morbidity and mortality in developing nations that was published in October 2015, and was previously a co-editor of an award-winning 2-volume medical textbook on infectious and tropical diseases. He has authored 119 peer-reviewed articles as well as 47 chapters in his specialty areas in the peer-reviewed medical literature. Dr. Schwartz is an experienced editor, currently serving on the Editorial Boards of three major international journals, and as an associate editor for one of them. He has previously taught at several universities, and is currently clinical professor of Pathology at the Georgia Regents University-Medical College of Georgia. He is also a member of the Directors Council of the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he additionally serves on the Scholarly Activities Committee.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Maternal Death and Pregnancy-Related Morbidity Among Indigenous Women of Mexico and Central America
Book Subtitle: An Anthropological, Epidemiological, and Biomedical Approach
Editors: David A. Schwartz
Series Title: Global Maternal and Child Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71538-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71537-7Published: 14 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10070-4Published: 25 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71538-4Published: 31 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2522-8382
Series E-ISSN: 2522-8390
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 790
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 260 illustrations in colour
Topics: Maternal and Child Health, Reproductive Medicine, Medical Anthropology, Epidemiology, Obstetrics/Perinatology/Midwifery