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Mali Health, established in 2006, is a non-governmental organization with 501(c)(3) status that strives to empower impoverished peri-urban communities in Mali, Africa to transform maternal and child health sustainably. Mali Health works to enable communities to design, build and implement their own health care systems through: * Fostering the agency of residents to address community health needs * Promoting health education, prevention, and early care-seeking * Enhancing financial, geographic, and cultural access to quality health care for poor families〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.onedayswages.org/community/blog/2012/11/empowerment-through-health-care-mali )〕 Mali Health envisions a world where poor urban communities have the power to mobilize to address their evolving maternal and child health needs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.malihealth.org/our-mission/ )〕 ==Maternal and Child Health in Mali== One of the 10 poorest countries in the world, Mali's life expectancy at birth is 55 years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url = http://hdr.undp.org/sites/all/themes/hdr_theme/country-notes/MLI.pdf )〕 Nearly 50% of the population of 16,455,903 is under 14 years of age and Mali has the second highest birth rate in the world,〔(【引用サイトリンク】work = CIA World Factbook )〕 making high maternal and child mortality a national crisis. In Mali, 1 and 5 children die before their 5th birthday, mostly from five treatable, preventable diseases: malaria, diarrhea, acute respiratory tract infections, measles, and malnutrition. The infant mortality rate (death before 1 year of age) is 104.3 deaths/1000 births, the second highest in the world.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=CIA World Factbook )〕 Only 27% of children under 5 sleep beneath insecticide-treated mosquito nets - one of the most effective ways to treat malaria - and only 34.8% of children under 5 years with fever receive treatment with any type of antimalarial medication.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url = http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.country.country-MLI )〕 In 2014, high maternal mortality (1 in 22 women die in childbirth) led Save the Children to rate Mali the 3rd worst country to be a mother in 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url = http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/sites/default/files/images/State_of_World_Mothers_2014a.pdf )〕 Only 52% of births among women aged 15–19 are attended by a skilled health professional.〔 Mali is dependent on international development organizations and foreign missionary groups for much of its health care. The total expenditure on health makes up only 7% of the national GDP and Mali has 0.1 hospital beds per 1,000 people.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=CIA World Factbook )〕 This health crisis is compounded by high levels of poverty - over 50% of the population lives on less than $1 a day (PPP) - and low levels of literacy - with a literacy rate of 39%.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=CIA World Factbook )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mali Health」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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