| Maternal and Child Mortality in Nigeria | | | | thinking organization's recommendation called for |
| For the most part, Nigeria is doing poorly in the health | | | | practical, scientifically sound, socially acceptable and |
| industry. Given its developmental stage however, the | | | | technologically empowered system of health |
| country is not expected to perform at the same | | | | promotion and care delivery. It also suggests |
| level of excellence with Industrialized countries. But its | | | | development methods and strategies for spirited self |
| poor and jeopardized developmental pathway has | | | | reliance and determination. Now, data collation will |
| retarded its overall socioeconomic progress. The | | | | largely involve community participation. |
| statistics is high for a country that has the amount | | | | There is no better form of promoting self |
| of human and natural resources Nigeria is blessed | | | | determination; which is the ability of a group to |
| with. Loads of institutional patterns of error had | | | | manage their resources as they see fit: Without |
| plagued the most populous black nation of the world. | | | | countervailing harmful effects on its immediate |
| Malaria, tuberculosis and other third world infectious | | | | environment or extended neighbours. Based on their |
| diseases are still threatening the productivity of the | | | | core values and norms, the communities can assist in |
| country. With "recovery" system of governance and | | | | describing and designing an intervention platform, |
| institutional ignorance, life expectancy in the country | | | | suitable for their developmental status. With such |
| is estimated at 47-50 years of age. Nevertheless, life | | | | level of inter-participation, reformers can readily |
| above 50 is characterized by affluence, education, | | | | identify what part of a community's capacity tool-set |
| nutritional intelligence or ability to drag on to the end. | | | | needs assistance and which requires reorientation. |
| As globally attractive as Nigeria may seem, especially | | | | Health promotion and care delivery education and its |
| in oil and gas drilling, the human development report | | | | needs can be communicated easily; in a community's |
| of 2007/2008 did put the black nation in its place. | | | | frame of reference. |
| The UNDP report ranked Nigeria close to bottom in | | | | Nigeria is a signatory to various conventions and |
| the maternal mortality index. The country was only | | | | declarations on women. For example the UN |
| ahead of low income countries under stress (LICUS) | | | | conventions on the rights of women and children; as |
| like Rwanda, Angola, Chad, Niger, and Sierra Leone. | | | | well as the Bamako declaration that adopted the |
| The political argument behind this ranking is rested on | | | | women and children health services initiative as a |
| the nation's population and human density; which | | | | strategy towards attainment of vision 2010. |
| allows higher contact rates and rapid spread. As much | | | | But these legal rights issue on women and children |
| as that part is true; the nation has no clear view on | | | | should be communicated to fundamentalist |
| how to keep its citizens healthy. | | | | communities with ease and cohesive diplomacy. Direct |
| There is no shared vision amongst the health care | | | | use of any kind of force, intellectual or economic, will |
| stakeholders. This includes care delivery organizations, | | | | reduce the chances of success in such locations. |
| clinicians, health care consumers and policy makers. | | | | Achieving health care best practices in Nigeria requires |
| Undoubtedly, with higher population comes increase in | | | | robust collaboration, shared vision, competitive |
| disease spread. Nevertheless, for Nigeria, there is no | | | | market development, technological awareness, |
| in depth profiling of the health of its citizens. The oil | | | | consumer profiling, responsive policy prescriptions, |
| rich nation lacks proper information gathering and | | | | corporate alignment between capital spending and |
| dissemination systems. These 21st century | | | | corporate goals, and finance. These sets of |
| multi-dimensional development tools inform a country | | | | interaction should target core value proposition, |
| on required patterns of intervention. Every | | | | interoperability and reduction in silo effects. |
| citizen-within accountability age brackets - should | | | | Recommendations: |
| understand how much of health care remains a civil | | | | Across health care market are actors in practice that |
| right against what is available. | | | | will determine the trajectory of its institutional future. |
| The country needs to get the politics and economics | | | | Health care providers' current concentrations in Africa |
| of the situation right. Health promotion and care | | | | are basically on episodic and acute medicine. |
| delivery in the nation needs audacious, practical and | | | | Expansion on these scales of concern is imperative |
| quick impact development projects. | | | | for public health. However, best practices and |
| Statistics on Maternal and Child mortality: | | | | competitive global health care market will respond |
| According to a national estimate, the Nigerian | | | | more to enhanced management of chronic diseases |
| population is at 140 million; 1 in 5 Africans is a Nigerian. | | | | and life-long prediction and prevention of illness. On |
| By the same report, 23% are women of child bearing | | | | predictive and preventive medicine, consumers will |
| age. In 2006, a national report estimated that 65 | | | | need to assume responsibility for their health, as well |
| million Nigerians were females. 30 million of that | | | | as establish demands for a transformed health care |
| number is within reproductive age -15-49 years. 6 | | | | system. By this attempt, health care blueprints will |
| million Nigerian women are expected to get pregnant | | | | showcase higher value delivery. |
| every year. In 2007, WHO, UNICEF, UNDP estimated | | | | Given this awareness, product suppliers will find it |
| only 5 million of those pregnancies to result into | | | | imperative to collaborate with clinicians and care |
| childbirth. | | | | delivery organizations in the development of products |
| Other statistics emerged in diverse directions. Quickly, | | | | that improve outcomes or provide equivalent |
| these hard numbers may not completely capture the | | | | outcomes at lower cost. These functions are |
| whole picture. And in this writing, they serve as an | | | | relatively dependent upon norms and values of a |
| indicator of what the actual might be. Modern | | | | given society. Societies on their part ought to engage |
| contraceptive prevalence rate is at 8% and | | | | realistic and rational decisions regarding lifestyle |
| unwanted pregnancy among adolescent is put at | | | | expectations. They will also need to prescribe |
| 60%. The use of antenatal care, by trained provider | | | | acceptable behaviour, and lastly understand how |
| is calculated at 64%; while proportion of pregnant | | | | much health care should be a societal right versus |
| women delivered by a trained provider is at 37%. | | | | market service. Health care governance best |
| Proportion of women delivered at home is 57%; and | | | | practices underline disease prevention, early detection |
| almost half of teenage mothers do not receive | | | | and health promotion as a given. As a result, societies |
| antenatal care. | | | | will play a bigger role in enhancing and in carrying the |
| On nutrition and drugs; 58% receive iron supplements | | | | professional message of preventive medicine. |
| and 30% receive malaria drugs. 50% receive two or | | | | Government on the other hand will need to raise |
| more doses of tetanus. In all, urban women are more | | | | various levels and scales of un-sustainability |
| on the positive side of things than their rural | | | | awareness on national health care system. Best |
| counterparts. For instance, urban women are 3 times | | | | practices assigns governments in leadership the role |
| likely to receive antenatal than rural women. Though | | | | of establishing political will power needed to remove |
| improvements are recorded in a recent national | | | | obstacles. They must encourage innovation through |
| publication, a lot needs to be done. | | | | development of competitive health care market |
| Enlarged perspective: | | | | place, suitable and conducive for direct foreign |
| This is what the global mortality rate on women | | | | investments. This can be achieved with well |
| looks like. Globally-536,000 women die annually. | | | | integrated and robust development pathways. |
| Though Nigeria contributes 1.7% of the global | | | | Efforts at rebranding or reimagining Africa's economic |
| population; yet on maternal deaths statistics, it | | | | performances may not yield appropriate fruit without |
| represents 10% of the world's population. Here is the | | | | strong financial systems. |
| scary part. Since Nigeria represents 10% of maternal | | | | Financial institutions in Africa have the highest lending |
| deaths, it translates to at least 53,000 women dying | | | | interest rates. Consequently, there are all sorts of |
| annually. That is the equivalent of 10 jumbo jets | | | | systematic crises in the region's economies. Optimized |
| crashing every month and one 737 jet every day or | | | | financial systems will reduce systematic corporate |
| one woman dying every 10-15 minutes. A Nigerian | | | | and household debt crises. This is an algorithmic |
| woman is 500 times more likely to die in childbirth | | | | pathway to regenerate entrepreneurship, |
| than her European counterpart. | | | | public-private partnership, as well as improved |
| On the part of children, about 5.3 million of them are | | | | economic security on wellbeing and livelihood. Health |
| born yearly in Nigeria, that- at least 11,000 every day. | | | | care governance best practices points towards |
| 1 million of these children die before the age of 5 | | | | "commoditization" of health promotion and care |
| years. A total 0f 2,300 children die daily. This is equal | | | | delivery. The health care market is evolving rapidly |
| to 23 plane crashes daily. More than a quarter (25%) | | | | and like technology, countries that refuse to adapt |
| of the estimated 1 million children who die under the | | | | will continue on dependency syndrome. There is high |
| age of 5 years annually in Nigeria, die during the | | | | confidence that businesses who understand the |
| neonatal period. (Source; Academic Report on | | | | development of health care will lead their industries in |
| Improving Maternal, New Born and Child Health) | | | | the future. Dilatory management decisions against this |
| Granted socio-cultural and economic status of women | | | | truth may reduce future corporate profitability. This is |
| constitutes major part of this statistics. For instance | | | | particularly true for the financial institutions-bank and |
| low status of women, poverty, poor nutrition (in | | | | non-bank. To really address content issues, health |
| childhood, adolescence and adulthood), ignorance and | | | | care market development requires the same priority |
| illiteracy; then again we can also consider religious | | | | IT was obliged during its emergence. |
| beliefs-often times this acts as barrier to utilization of | | | | Mostly, development of successful health care |
| available health services-and lastly, harmful traditional | | | | market place is beyond infrastructural and IT |
| practices. Generally there are multi-dimensional causes | | | | introductions. It is far above specialist centres |
| that contribute to health care difficulties in the | | | | introduction. Successful market development requires |
| country. But if Nigeria can improve on its data | | | | coordination and integration across |
| generation, collection and distribution, in line with | | | | sector-stakeholders. Health care governance best |
| socio-cultural, economic and educational differences; | | | | practices cannot be achieved without a competitive |
| such data management and governance will allow | | | | market place. Purposely, win-win scenarios should be |
| reformers to practically evaluate and monitor | | | | targeted for all stakeholders, businesses and care |
| intervention programmes. Progress in this format will | | | | delivery organizations. But market leadership and |
| mean successfully executed intervention procedures | | | | institutional largesse will belong to businesses and |
| against institutional targets and original understanding | | | | CDOs that inform their operational, financial, and |
| of crises. | | | | management visions of this - globally integrated - |
| This process can be weighed in the WHO's aims and | | | | emerging market. |
| objectives for primary health care. The forward | | | | |