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Purpose of Blog:
This blog will be documenting my research concerning female literacy and related health improvements. My original project was to collect information and statistics from various sources and databases and create a cumulative source documenting the positive effect of female literacy on women and children’s health in developing African countries. Having completed this research paper, I am now maintaining this blog as a place to share my further findings on the subject of female literacy and its effects on health, etc.



Some quick facts:
Female literacy has been shown to have a positive effect on health because “educated women are more likely to be employed and to earn more than less-educated women” (Daniell & Mortensen , 2007, p. 278), “an extra year of girls’ education can reduce infant mortality by 5-10 percent” and “educated mothers are about 50 percent more likely to immunize their children than uneducated mothers are” (Herz & Sperling, , 2004, p. 4).


References:
Daniell, B., & Mortensen, P. (2007). Women and literacy. New York: Taylor & Francis Group.
 Herz, B., & Sperling G. (2004). What works in girls’ education? New York: Council on Foreign Relations Inc.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Maternal Mortality Rates

Here's a great picture that really depicts the situation with maternal mortality rates around the world:


WHO Maternal Mortality Rates, 2005


You can see that there is a real problem in Sub-Saharan Africa: at least ten countries have over 1,000 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births!
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1 comment:

Stacie said...

I'm surprised that the US has more maternal deaths than most of Europe. Also, I wonder what the actual numbers are in Sub-Sarharan Africa. It's sad because most all of those deaths are completely preventable.

December 5, 2008 at 8:35 PM

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