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Maternal and infant mortality are widely considered to be an indication of a nation's overall health, and the United States' rates are relatively higher than those in more disadvantaged countries. Those rates increase drastically for Black mothers in America.
Bachelor's student Sahana Raja spent her summer at a global public health internship in Tamil Nadu, India, the region where her parents were born. She describes learning about healthcare and poverty, maternal health, and a calling to serve.
“I stepped into the all-familiar Michigan Medicine hospital. This time, however, my perspective was more than a little bit different. I had wandered these halls just weeks prior—not as a patient, but as a medical student. Now, I entered as an expectant mother.”
Maintaining vegan and vegetarian diets has gotten easier as the plant-based food options have become more widely accessible. While plant-based diets can be considered healthy in many ways, vegan and vegetarian expectant mothers may need to be more vigilant in understanding what they're consuming to ensure they're getting the proper nutrition during pregnancy.
The early childhood period shapes future health and well-being; young children depend on their caregivers to survive. The child-serving ecosystem is a broad network of individuals and systems affecting young children and caregivers. We review the role of relational health in this ecosystem.
It’s a painful statistical fact that Black babies die at higher rates than White babies—a fact all the more painful and tragic for those living with the realities of infant mortality. The difference in death rates is shared by developing and developed nations alike. But the trend can and must change.