Mid-East Health Reforms
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As with most developing countries that are overpopulated and lack adequate health care funding, programs and knowledgeable personnel, Yemen’s overall health situation is not well. Other than the high rates of maternal mortality, the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) listed Yemen’s leading causes of morbidity as, “enteritis and other diarrheal diseases, influenza and pneumonia, dysentery, amebiasis, malaria, streptococcal sore throat, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, leprosy, communicable eye diseases, and schistomiasis,” (Krieger 6). Despite some efforts in the 1980s to reverse these trends, most of them caused by contaminated drinking water and/or a lack of health care availability, they still surge ahead. However, since the 1990s and the liberalization of the government, more focus is placed upon overcoming these obstacles by linking political policies to overall quality of health care and environmentally sustainable growth (i.e., population policies). This analysis will discuss the overall health care programs and reforms initiated by the new Yemeni government, a cooperative effort that involves international governmental and non-governmental groups, agencies and programs as well as national governmental and non-governmental groups, agencies and programs.Between the 1950s and the 1980s, health care improved a great deal in Yemen, particular in response to government action. New training facilities were un
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nancy and the lack of adequate maternal health care has been an education program aimed at prevention by intervening with teens. UNFPA cooperated with the Yemeni Ministry of Youth and Sports to “provide education, information, and counseling services to young men and women who are members of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides Association,” (UNFPA 3).
The severe shortage of qualified female personnel in the health sector is another major obstacle to improving Yemeni health care, especially with respect to maternal mortality figures. The Mother and Child Health (MCH) services were created to work at different levels within the overall health care system. Infant immunization and pre-natal care were the biggest concerns, but the shortage of staff has prevented their efforts from making much of a dent in these world-leading statistics, “There were only 550 qualified Yemeni midwives employed by the Ministry of Health in 1996, most of them working in urban areas,” (Taha, I 2). Inadequate health care services, lack of female trained personnel, high costs of transportation and other factors make the choice of having their child at home the most popular one with Yemeni women-especially those in the even worse off rural areas.
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