Titlebook: Maternal Death and Pregnancy-Related Morbidity Among Indigenous Women of Mexico and Central America; An Anthropological, David A. Schwartz

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Hypertensive Mothers, Obstetric Hemorrhage, and Infections: Biomedical Aspects of Maternal Death Amosociated disorders develop. This chapter addresses the three most frequent causes of maternal death among indigenous women of Mexico and Central America—hypertensive diseases (including preeclampsia and eclampsia), obstetric hemorrhage (including uterine atony, placental abruption, retained placenta

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Speaking in Tongues: The Importance of Speaking Indigenous Languages in Maternal Health Careight of indigenous women as they navigate this rocky terrain. The goal of this chapter is to demonstrate that through learning an indigenous language, one also learns how to become culturally sensitive, which has the capacity to empower both workers and indigenous women.

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Maternal Health in Central America: The Role of Medicinal Plants in the Pregnancy-Related Health ands the role of traditional medicine practices and their influence on maternal health outcomes, and reviews the existing scientific evidence supporting the use of traditional (i.e., plant-based) medicines for pregnancy-related health conditions.

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Maternal Mortality and the Coverage, Availability of Resources, and Access to Women’s Health Servicet of social inequalities based on gender, ethnicity, and social class. We would like to also highlight the MM indicator, given that it exemplifies the social determinants of health, inequities, and the barriers to guarantee the ability to exercise the right to health. Finally, the performance of unn

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Pregnancy, Birth, and Babies: Motherhood and Modernization in a Yucatec Villagesociated with increased birth complications, medical interventions, nonelective cesarean section procedures, postpartum rest periods, and increased formula feeding, as well as decreased maternal intrapartum support. Still many Maya mothers retain several traditional practices; some visit the traditi

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Social Support and Social Suffering: Uterine Health and , Among Indigenous Women in Mexico. These all manifest as failed sociality and reflect the precariousness of the lives of impoverished, indigenous women that we illustrate here through their stories. We conclude that the implications of research on the effect of social support on women’s embodiment of social suffering can extend bey

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Characteristics of Maternal Death Among Mayan Women in Yucatan, Mexicoven though there is a health system organized by levels of care, those people living in municipalities distant from the state capital do not have services to assist them during obstetric emergencies until a hospital is reached. Moreover, there are sociocultural factors that prevail in the cases of m