Maternal Health

It refers to the health of women before and during pregnancy. During delivery they are more causing death in mothers and their newborn babies and reduce illness. Maternal care is mostly important to mother and child. These health risks include hypertension and heart disease. The importance of maternal health is to ensure the health of child and mainly the healthy child needs healthy mother. Maternal Diseases are increased by a chance that your baby will born with a chronic disease or birth defect. It is a major challenge in most developing countries including Ethiopia. UNICEF helps local communities to provide information for women and their families on signs of pregnancy complications on spacing time and limiting for nutrition and health and it helps in improving the nutritional status of pregnant women to prevent low birth weight. The causes of pregnancy related deaths are heart disease and stroke. Most of the pregnancy related deaths can be prevented.

 

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