Cuba voted best nation for mothers

[Mika]

http://www.scuktravel.com/cuba-holiday-news/cuba-voted-best-nation-in-developing-world-for-mothers-19757628.aspx

This is according to Save the Children's State of the World's Mothers 2010 survey, which looked at 160 countries in total and determined that the Caribbean island provides the most superior conditions, the Latin American Herald Tribune reports.

It staved off competition from Argentina, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Chile, Columbia and Brazil, while in developed countries, Norway placed first in the rankings, in front of Australia, Iceland and Sweden.

The body issued a call to improve the number of health care professionals working in the poorest states, stating that 57 destinations face a "critical shortage" of such personnel and 50 million women annually give birth without medical assistance.

In addition, the publication called on countries to make investments in those women who are healthcare workers on the front line.

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[naaman fletcher]

1. Wow, it staved off competition from "Columbia" nt

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[Judi Lynn]

3. The United States is 28th. We were 27th last year!

US scores poorly on world motherhood rankings
AFP
Tuesday, 4 May 2010

The United States has scored poorly on a campaign group's list of the best countries in which to be a mother, managing only 28th place, and bettered by many smaller and poorer countries.

Norway topped the latest Save the Children "Mothers Index", followed by a string of other developed nations, while Afghanistan came in at the bottom of the table, below several African states.

But the US showing put it behind countries such as the Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; and eastern and central European states such as Croatia and Slovenia.

Even debt-plagued Greece came in four places higher at 24.

Save the Children compiled the index after analyzing a range of factors affecting the health and well-being of women and children, including access to health care, education and economic opportunities.

One factor that dragged the US ranking down was its maternal mortality rate, which at one in 4,800 is one of the highest in the developed world," said the report.

"A woman in the Unites States is more than five times as likely as a woman in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece or Italy to die from pregnancy-related causes in her lifetime and her risk of maternal death is nearly 10-fold that of a woman in Ireland," the report said.

It also scored poorly on under-five mortality, its rate of eight per 1,000 births putting it on a par with Slovakia and Montenegro.

"At this rate, a child in the US is more than twice as likely as a child in Finland, Iceland, Sweden or Singapore to die before his or her fifth birthday," the report noted.

Only 61 percent of children were enrolled in preschool, which on this indicator made it the seventh-lowest country in the developed world, it said.

And it added: "The United States has the least generous maternity leave policy - both in terms of duration and percent of wages paid - of any wealthy nation."


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[Judi Lynn]

4. Here are the Tier #2 countries, from Save the Children's findings:

TIER II: Less Developed Countries
Cuba 1 1 10
Israel 2 2 2
Argentina 3 4 13
Barbados 3 3 2
Korea, Republic of 5 6 7
Cyprus 6 8 1
Uruguay 7 7 8
Kazakhstan 8 9 21
Bahamas 9 12 5
Mongolia 10 4 53
Thailand 11 10 19
Costa Rica 12 21 12
Chile 13 20 4
Colombia 13 10 33
Brazil 15 15 19
South Africa 16 14 51
Peru 17 18 31
China 18 13 42
Ecuador 18 17 40
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 20 16 34
Dominican Republic 21 19 26
Mexico 21 26 18
Uzbekistan 23 23 36
Bahrain 24 26 17
Kyrgyzstan 25 24 38
Panama 26 21 39
Trinidad and Tobago 27 34 25
Tunisia 28 36 14
Jamaica 29 30 29
Kuwait 30 30 27
Mauritius 31 35 27
Vietnam 31 24 57
Bolivia, Plurinational State of 33 29 52
Paraguay 34 28 54
Armenia 35 36 37
Suriname 36 38 47
Namibia 37
Malaysia 38 45 22
Qatar 39 49 9
Sri Lanka 40 33 60
El Salvador 41 39 56
Iran, Islamic Republic of 42 43 35
Georgia 43 55 10
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 43 41 46
Guyana 45 48 48
Botswana 46 45 45
United Arab Emirates 46 56 23
Cape Verde 48 50 49
Lebanon 48 60 6
Philippines 48 41 62
Belize 51 54 30
Algeria 52 52 41
Azerbaijan 53 51 54
Indonesia 54 44 66
Tajikistan 55 40 71
Jordan 56 61 14
Egypt 57 61 24
Gabon 57 45 70
Nicaragua 57 57 59
Honduras 60 58 58
Turkey 60 65 16
Saudi Arabia 62 67 32
Swaziland 63 53 72
Ghana 64 59 69
Syrian Arab Republic 64 68 42
Guatemala 66 66 63
Zimbabwe 67 61 73
Morocco 68 73 61
Oman 69 70 67
Kenya 70 64 79
Cameroon 71 69 76
Congo 71 71 74
India 73 74 75
Papua New Guinea 74 72 81
Pakistan 75 76 77
Côte d’Ivoire 76 76 78
Nigeria 77

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Tier #1:
TIER I: More Developed Countries
Norway 1 2 9
Australia 2 1 28
Iceland 3 5 6
Sweden 3 7 1
Denmark 5 4 19
New Zealand 6 3 24
Finland 7 6 18
Netherlands 8 9 22
Belgium 9 11 13
Germany 9 14 3
Ireland 11 8 26
France 12 13 4
Spain 13 15 11
United Kingdom 14 10 24
Switzerland 15 18 12
Slovenia 16 12 20
Estonia 17 19 13
Italy 17 24 2
Portugal 19 22 8
Canada 20 17 21
Hungary 21 15 23
Lithuania 22 21 27
Czech Republic 23 27 13
Greece 24 26 17
Latvia 25 19 33
Austria 26 33 5
Croatia 27 25 32
United States 28 23 34
Luxembourg 29 34 9
Poland 29 29 29
Slovakia 31 30 30
Japan 32 38 6
Belarus 33 28 36
Bulgaria 34 31 31
Malta 35 41 13
Serbia 36 40 35
Romania 37 32 39
Russian Federation 38 35 38
Ukraine 39 37 37
Moldova, Republic of 40 38 41
Bosnia and Herzegovina 41 36 43
Macedonia, TFYR 42 42 40
Albania 43 43 42

http://www.savethechildren.org/publications/state-of-the-worlds-mothers-report/SOWM-2010-Index-Rankings.pdf

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[protocol rv]

5. So how come they won't let those mothers protest when their sons go to jail?

Seems inconsistent.

[Billy Burnett]

6. And your post seems like BS

You know that the Ladies in White have been allowed to march without permits except for a couple of times when they staged sit-ins on sites being used for other events. Even those couple of times they were staging sit-ins and rousted by unarmed female police officers from their positions, they were given rides home to their homes. Not arrested. They have been treated with kid gloves.

It is only propagandists like you who lie when they say that the Cuban government "won't let" the Ladies in White march or protest - and you know it.