Women’s Health in Laos: From Colonial Times to the Present

In 2012 the poor state of women’s health in Laos was in the spotlight due to the advancing deadline of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and MDG 5 in particular, which aimed to improve maternal health by reducing maternal mortality rates and providing universal access to reproductive health se...

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1. Verfasser:	Kathryn Sweet
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Child health services Demographic fluctuations Demography Development studies Economic disciplines Economics Employment Family planning Federal health insurance plans Governance Government Government budgets Government health care finance Government spending Health care industry Health care services Health professions Health sciences Human populations International development Labor economics Maternal mortality rates Medicaid Medical personnel Midwifery Midwives Mortality rates Nurses Occupations Perinatal mortality rates Personal health services Persons Political science Population studies Reproductive health services Social sciences Women
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Zusammenfassung:	In 2012 the poor state of women’s health in Laos was in the spotlight due to the advancing deadline of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and MDG 5 in particular, which aimed to improve maternal health by reducing maternal mortality rates and providing universal access to reproductive health services. The Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) had for many decades one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the East Asia-Pacific region, few trained midwives, and comparatively low rates of access to contraception and other basic reproductive health services. It would be tempting to assume that these low indicators for