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3225.0: Monday, November 05, 2007: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | ||||
Oral | ||||
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| Twenty years after the Safe Motherhood Initiative was launched more women are dying from pregnancy-related causes than in 1987. Why has the world allowed this problem to worsen while donating increasing sums on other world health problems? What new interventions, programs and policies have developed to increase our ability to save more women's lives? | ||||
| Learning Objectives: 1. Review the reasons why maternal mortality remains an unsolved problem in the world 2. Identify practices and policies to help prevent maternal deaths 3. Learn from projects what has worked to decrease maternal deaths in resource poor settings | ||||
| Panelist(s): | Patsy Bailey, PhD Alicia Yamin, JD MPH Maxi Raymonville, MD Ann Starrs | |||
| Organizer(s): | Donna Barry, NP MPH | |||
| Moderator(s): | Ana Langer, MD | |||
| 12:30 PM |  | Safe Motherhood: Twenty Years and Counting Ann Starrs | ||
| 12:50 PM | | Quick Wins, Quick Fixes - or Are They? Patsy Bailey, PhD | ||
| 1:10 PM | | Maternal Mortality in Central Haiti: Structural Solutions Maxi Raymonville, MD | ||
| 1:30 PM | | Deadly Delays, Systemic Injustice Alicia Yamin, JD MPH | ||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | ||||
| Organized by: | International Health | |||
| Endorsed by: | Community Health Workers SPIG; Maternal and Child Health; Socialist Caucus; Women's Caucus | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | |||
The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA