URBANO, NICOLLE ELLEIZZA MAE C.

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1. Look for the most recent statistics for maternal and infant mortality rate in the Philippines. What
are the programs implemented to decrease the number of maternal and infant deaths?

- Philippines maternal mortality rate for 2017 was 121.00, a 2.42% decline from 2016. Philippines
maternal mortality rate for 2016 was 124.00, a 2.36% decline from 2015. Philippines maternal mortality
rate for 2015 was 127.00, a 3.05% decline from 2014. Philippines maternal mortality rate for 2014 was
131.00, a 3.68% decline from 2013.

The current infant mortality rate for Philippines in 2022 is 17.968 deaths per 1000 live births, a 2.31%
decline from 2021.
The infant mortality rate for Philippines in 2021 was 18.392 deaths per 1000 live births, a 2.25% decline
from 2020.
The infant mortality rate for Philippines in 2020 was 18.815 deaths per 1000 live births, a 2.2% decline
from 2019. The infant mortality rate for Philippines in 2019 was 19.239 deaths per 1000 live births, a
2.16% decline from 2018.

One of the programs implemented to decrease the number of maternal and infant deaths is the
"National Safe Motherhood Program". The goal of this program is for Filipino women to have full access
to health services towards making their pregnancy and delivery safer.

2. What are the latest trends in maternal and child healthcare environment to meet the sustainable
development goals of WHO?

- One of the trends for a sustainable maternal and child healthcare is the "Millennium Development
Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health".

Improving maternal health is key to saving the lives of more than half a million women who die as a
result of complications from pregnancy and childbirth each year. Almost all these deaths could be
prevented if women in developing countries had access to adequate diets, safe water and sanitation
facilities, basic literacy and health services during pregnancy and childbirth. Hunger and malnutrition
have been found to increase both the incidence and the fatality rate of the conditions that cause up to
80 percent of maternal deaths.

FAO contributes to improving maternal health through efforts to: improve women’s access to
productive resources and income; improve women’s nutritional status; and empower women to obtain
better health care, education and social services.

MGD5 has two targets: Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio Achieve universal access
to reproductive health.
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Macrotrends, n.d., Philippines Infant Mortality Rate 1950-2022, accessed 25 September 2022, retrieved
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Zenaida Dy Recidoro, 17 October 2018, NATIONAL SAFE MOTHERHOOD PROGRAM, accessed 25

September 2022, retrieved from <https://doh.gov.ph/national-safe-motherhood-program>

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, n.d., Millennium Development Goal 5: Improve
maternal health, accessed 25 September 2022, retrieved from <https://www.fao.org/sustainable-
development-goals/mdg/goal-5/en/>