Complications of Pregnancy
Which animal transmits the toxoplasmosis disease during pregnancy?
What are cats?
Which age group has the highest rate of pregnancy complications?
What are 35-44 years old?
Which economic class of countries do 94% of all global maternal deaths occur in?
What are low/low middle income countries?
Sri Lanka managed to decrease maternal death drastically despite being a _____ – income country.
What is Lower or Middle income?
What percentage does Tamil Nadu contribute to the total population of India?
What is 6%?
Which complication is the result of not enough insulin being secreated from the pancreas?
What are Gestational Diabetes?
What condition can be avoided by abstinence from alcohol during pregnancy?
What is fetal alcohol syndrome?
What is maternal mortality?
What is the death of a woman during pregnancy, at delivery, or soon after delivery?
Name one incentive for a woman in Sri Lanka to seek professional maternal care.
What is short transportation distance, professional staff, use of antibiotics, increased access to midwives, etc.?
How much did maternal mortality decrease from 1993 to 2007?
What is a decrease from 380 to 90?
Which two complications can result in high blood pressure?
What are gestational diabetes and preeclampsia?
What two vaccines does the CDC recommend women get during pregnancy?
What are the flu and T-DAP vaccines?
Which two regions of world account for 86% of all maternal deaths?
What are Sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia?
In which decade did the Sri Lankan government begin to implement new maternal care methods?
What are the 1940s?
What does PHC, CHC and SCs stand for?
What are Primary Health Centers, Community Health Centers, and Subcenters?
What are the 3 types of placenta previa?
What are Complete, partial, marginal?
What are the six key nutrients pregnant women need?
What are Calcium, iron, folic acid, vitamin D, DHA, Iodine?
Name 3 causes of maternal deaths.
What is severe bleeding, infections, high blood pressure, complications from delivery, unsafe abortion, malaria or related to chronic conditions like cardiac diseases or diabetes, blood clots?
What percentage of births in Sri Lanka are attended by professionals in the present day?
What is 97%?
What is the main challenge still ongoing?
What is the quality of infrastructure and services in rural areas?
What is the most common placement of the egg in an ectopic pregnancy?
What are the fallopian tubes?
What are some congenial infections that vaccines can prevent?
What is chicken pox or rubella?
Name a factor that prevent women from receiving or seeking care during pregnancy and childbirth.
What are poverty, distance to facilities, lack of information, inadequate and poor-quality services, cultural beliefs and practices, mistrust in western medicine?
Name three interventions made by the Sri Lankan government in order to increase quality of maternal health care.
What are increased number of midwives and health professionals, increased number of health facilities, control of related diseases such as Malaria, increased sanitation, use of antibiotics, targeted efforts towards vulnerable groups?
How many beds, medical officers, staff nurses, auxiliary nurse midwives, ecg machines and laboratory equipment did they get in total?
What is 39-45? Or, what is 42?