Maternal Mortality in developing countries

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Kurt Lewin on Maternal Mortality in
developing nations By Tammy and Erim

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Kurt Lewin (1890-1947)
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• Why do more than 500,000 girls and women die
  every year 99 in developing countries- from
  preventable conditions and injuries related to
  pregnancy and childbirth?
• (Germain, 2004, p. 65).

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Take a look
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ternal_mortality_ratios.htm
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All preventable causes..
(http//www.safemotherhood.org/facts_and_figures/m
aternal_mortality_ratios.htm)
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Unfreezing

• Encouraging people to let go of an old pattern
  that was not right and using the information to
  promote change

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The need to Unfreeze!

• Widespread illiteracy
• Malnutrition
• Poor living conditions
• No skilled care
• Frequent pregnancies
• Dysfunctional governments
• Poverty
• Non existent health systems
• Discrimination
• Poor working conditions

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• Reducing the burden of mortality and morbidity
  that affects poor people is widely regarded as
  one of the foremost challenges to world health
  today
• (Bell et al., 2004)

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Change

• Revolutionizing using reflections and emotions

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Change!

• Start solving problems region by region
• Educate the women!
• Provide technology!
• Provide medications!
• Skilled birth attendants!
• Cultivate the land for resources
• Get the governments involved
• Teach family planning
• Evaluate

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Refreezing

• Amalgamating new information into practice to
  institute the change as a new habit, making it
  the new norm

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Refreeze!

• Guarantee safe motherhood as a human right
• Eradicate poverty
• Prenatal care
• Education for women
• Access to quality healthcare
• Evaluate
• Equity

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Driving Restraining Forces

• Driving Forces are forces that promote change
  for the better
• Restraining Forces work to oppose this change

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Restraining Forces
Driving Forces

• Not enough awareness
• Not enough action
• Not enough care

• Incremental change
• Goal setting
• Hope

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Come on people!

• WE ARE the change agents
• Pregnancy birth are conditions that are not
  intended to kill a woman
• These problems are manmade and thus the solutions
  also lie within us as a people.

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References

• Bell, J., Cairns, J., Fitzmaurice, A., Graham,
  W. (2004). The familial technique for
• linking maternal death with poverty. The
  Lancet, 363, 23-27. Retrieved January 16, 2006,
  from CINAHL Database with Full Text.
• Germain, A. (2004). Reproductive health and human
  rights. The Lancet, 363, 65-66. Retrieved January
  16, 2006 from CINAHL Database with Full Text
• Schein, E. H. (1995). Kurt Lewins Change Theory
  in the Field and in the Classroom
• Notes toward a model of managed learning.
  Working Paper 3821. Available from (pdf)
  https//dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/1721.1/2576/1/SW
  P-3821-32871445.pdf
• Yahoo. (n.d.). Maternal Mortality. Retrieved
  February 13, 2006 from http//images.search.yahoo
  .com/search/images?ppovertyeiUTF-8frFP-tab-im
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