Prehistoric literacy[ edit ] Origins of literacy[ edit ] Literacy is emerged with the development of numeracy and computational devices as early as 8, BCE. Script developed independently at least five times in human history MesopotamiaEgyptthe Indus civilizationlowland Mesoamericaand China. During this era, literacy was "a largely functional matter, propelled by the need to manage the new quantities of information and the new type of governance created by trade and large scale production". Proto-cuneiform texts exhibit not only numerical signs, but also ideograms depicting objects being counted.
Although maternal mortality in Uganda has declined from deaths perlive births into deaths perlive births inthis still falls way below the MDG target of deaths perlive births by This translates into an annual decline rate of 5.
It remains evident that many mothers are still dying as a result of pregnancy related complications and as shown in the Reproductive maternal, Newborn and child health Sharpened plan for Uganda; November which highlighted the highest maternal mortality to be in Eastern, Western, North and the Karamoja regions and lowest in Central the central region.
Although there has been strong commitment from the Ministry of health and government at large to address preventable causes of maternal morbidity and mortality, there is still generally low turn up for health services in rural areas as expectant mothers prefer receiving care from traditional birth attendants other than health facilities and often mix conventional medicine with local herbs.
Many women choose not to go to health facilities because they do not understand why they are being subjected to tests or why certain medication is important in saving their lives and that of the baby.
This is so because most women in rural areas are illiterate and therefore rely on ancient family practices, rumors, myths and misconceptions associated to pregnancy and child birth.
We as Ugandans must keep our mothers, wives, sisters and daughters alive by doing what we can to reduce preventable maternal deaths from happening. Research and practice have shown that infants whose mothers die within the first 6 weeks of their lives are most likely to die before reaching the age of 2 than infants whose mothers survive child birth.
We can therefore only improve access to and delivery of maternal health services in rural areas through Health literacy amongst health providers, women and girls of reproductive age, men, cultural and religious heads etc.
In this century, with drugs and commodities to save lives, no woman should have to die due to lack of reproductive health choices or worse still, have to give her life to give life.
We can all make it happen for all the women in our lives.Women who had been single mothers for any period were more at risk of physical disability and poor health in later life in comparison with women who had raised children with a partner.
For many single parents, earning a college degree may seem like an insurmountable feat. Over a quarter of all undergraduate students in the U.S.
Child health is affected because their mothers are single parents with meager incomes and their literacy levels are low. They tend to misinterpret the health information leading to poor health . Health literacy is the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions. AHRQ-funded researchers have developed four tools to measure an aspect of health literacy—individuals' reading comprehension in a medical context. “It’s not clear that Trump’s end-of-the-campaign rhetoric about the caravan actually had any impact,” says John Sides, professor of political science at George Washington University.
are raising children while attending college; single mothers make up 43% of the student-parent population, while single fathers comprise 11%.Tuition can be expensive for any student, but for single parents, additional costs like child care and living.
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Learn more about grant programs and services. Jan 29, · Students who participated in an intensive childhood education program from preschool to third grade were more likely to achieve an academic degree beyond high school, compared to a similar group that received other intervention services as children, with greater benefits for those whose mothers were high school dropouts.
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