Ethnography of Maternal Death Reviews in India: Problems & Solutions

What is it about?

THis essay offers a case study of a maternal death in India as a means to analyze and critique the roll out of Maternal Death Revies (MDR) in India after 2011. It suggests how ethnographic ways of knowing might improve the MDR process in India and other low resource settings.

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Why is it important?

Maternal Mortality is still a leading problem across middle and low income countries and especially problematic for India, which has more birth and more maternal deaths than any other nation. This essay offers a timely critique of a global process of MDR that is being adapted and improved across almost every member nation of the WHO, including the US and India. The quality and the spread of MDR has been shown to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity across the globe.