Childbirth in South Asia : old paradoxes and new challenges / edited by Clémence Jullien and Roger Jeffery.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Jullien, Clémence, editor.
• Jeffery, Roger, editor.

Series:

• Oxford scholarship online.
• Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Birth customs--South Asia.
• Childbirth--South Asia.
• Women's health services--South Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 pages).

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Women in Western countries press for more home deliveries, and to confront some of the effects of the over-medicalisation of motherhood. Most developing countries, by contrast, promote deliveries in clinics and hospitals, and stigmatise women who deliver at home. All of the South Asian countries have been accused of neglecting childbirth and women's healthcare. The Millennium Development Goals (2000-2015) prompted important new Government schemes across South Asia, designed to address the issues of safe motherhood and childbirth. The Sustainable Development Goals (2015-2030) now mandate further efforts to reduce maternal and neo-natal mortality. This book illustrates the continuing paradoxes as well as the new challenges linked to childbirth in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal.

Notes:

• Also issued in print: 2021.
• Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 17, 2021).
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-099329-4