Mortality Rates
How have mortality rates in Kenya, Angola, Australia, Haiti, and China have changed over the past 20 years?
A brief overview of the maternal mortality rates has shown that major improvements have occurred to the Angolan healthcare and midwifery, as the maternity mortality rates have become three times as low as they used to be in 1990 (Maternal mortality ratio: Data by country, 2014). Little progress has occurred to the Australian midwifery, though being the lowers, the maternal mortality rates have remained nearly unchanged. The same can be said about China, though being comparatively low from the start, MMR has not altered significantly.
Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG, 5). Antenatal Care Coverage (1 visit or more)
How has the Antenatal Care Coverage changed over the past 20 years in Kenya, Angola, Australia, Haiti, and China?
The chart displays in a rather graphic manner that the provision of antenatal care needs to be improved significantly in all the states under analysis. Specifically, the fact that only the information regarding the antenatal services provided for the past five years is available shows that the issue has been viewed as significant only recently. Herein the need to promote further progress lies (Women: Data by country, 2014).
Antenatal Care Coverage
How successfully has the Antenatal Care Coverage as a part of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals been promoted in the rural and urban areas of Kenya, Angola, Australia, Haiti, and China?
Urban
The chart above shows that there has been a major change in the provision of services for women living in the urban areas of the states in question. For example, Haiti has shown an 8% improvement in the antenatal care coverage within a one in three years visit in the country area and a 7% one in the rural parts of the state in 2005–2012. Likewise, Kenya has also displayed significant progress on the specified time slot (4% for each area correspondingly (Place of residence: Data by country, 2014)).
It is also quite peculiar that no data has been provided on Angola, Australia, and China. The specified phenomenon can be attributed to the fact that the states mentioned above have not adopted the Millennium Development Goals as a part of their strategy for changing healthcare.
Reference List
Maternal mortality ratio: Data by country. (2014). WHO. Web.
Place of residence: Data by country. (2014). WHO. Web.
Women: Data by country. (2014). WHO. Web.