Reducing Maternal and Neonatal Mortality in Indonesia Saving Lives, Saving the Future (2013) / Chapter Skim
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Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 1 Introduction
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. In 2002 the UN's secretary-general commissioned the United Nations Millennium Project with an eye toward developing a concrete action plan to achieve certain Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
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This decline has stemmed in part from the implementation of a vigorous family planning program starting in the mid-1970s and to social and economic change, particularly massive improvements through the 1970s and 1980s in basic education for girls affecting the total number of births. The family planning projects of the 1970s and 1980s also saw significant declines in fertility at the youngest and oldest ages and in the shortest birth intervals -- conditions that coincide with the highest risk of mortality in childbirth.
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The costs of training health care workers and of supporting hospitals and community health centers are paid through complex financing mechanisms involving central government ministries, district governments, and households. A national insurance program covers childbirth, but it does not yet serve all families.
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The objective of this report is to provide the best possible recommendations for actions that might be taken to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality in Indonesia. These recommendations are based on the reported information, published data, available evidence, and knowledge gained in the course of the study from patients, families, midwives, government officials, scientists, and health care providers.
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Members met as well in smaller groups. During the full joint committee meetings, members heard presentations from Indonesian government officials, health service providers, academic experts, and representatives of international agencies and NGOs (see the Acknowledgments section for a list of the outside participants in the committee meetings)
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