Journal of Womens Health, Issues and CareISSN: 2325-9795

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Sunitha Srinivas Author

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Subjects of specialization
Primary Health Care, Health Promotion, Public Health, Non-Communicable Diseases, Essential medicines

Affiliation
Associate Professor, Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Biography

Sunitha Chandrasekhar Srinivas currently works as a consultant in public health. Her research interests are in the areas of community participatory research for health empowerment; Advocacy and prevention of non communicable diseases; essential medicines; maternal and child health; and implementing service-learning programs.

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Health Literacy for Enhanced Maternal Health

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Sunitha Srinivas

Preventable conditions related to maternal health, such as severe bleeding after childbirth, infections, hypertensive disorders, and unsafe abortions are responsible for roughly 529 000 deaths with the majority occurring in developing countries. It is estimated that 20% of the burden of disease in children below the age of five is
also related to poor maternal health, nutrition and low quality of care received during delivery and the new-born period. Implementation of the millennium development goals 3 and 5 resulted in a 45% decline in maternal mortality and a drop of 6.7million deaths for children under the age of five. With the alarming increases in antimicrobial resistance, there is a great possibility of regression of these achievements due to resi... view more»

DOI: 10.4172/2325-9795.1000271

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