SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY ON MATERNAL DEATH Social Sustainability It is the core element of Sustainability It is the most essential since it is about

ut the creation and maintenance of the quality of life for the people. It is for the protection of mental and physical health of all stakeholders, inspiring community, treating all stakeholders fairly, and providing essential services. Healthy society are cannot be developed and maintained if the population are in poor health.

SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY ON MATERNAL DEATH Effect of Social Sustainability to Environment and Economy Since social sustainability is the core element of sustainability, creation and maintenance of healthy society will result to environment caring and productive population which is the main key for a successful environmental and economic sustainability. On the hand, poor health of the population will result to environment polluting and lazy people that will ultimately disable the sustainability of the environment and downfall of the economy.

Maternal Health It refers to the health of women during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. It incorporates the health care dimensions of family planning, preconception, prenatal, and postnatal care to avoid maternal morbidity and mortality. M a t e r n a l

P o o r Part of the Labor force are Women

H e a l t h

Women get pregnant

Maternal Death
Using records as of year 2005; Maternal Mortality Ratio Number of Maternal Deaths Lifetime Risk of Maternal Death 240 deaths | 100,000 live births 4,600 cases 1 | 140 women (aged 15 to 49)

Effect of Maternal Death due to Poor Maternal Health to Social Sustainability

Death of mothers will result to poverty due to loss of her monetary income which then sustain social necessities of a family. Lack of social guidance to the family to harness good social attitudes among family members. Orphan children become unhealthy due to absence of care from the parents. Social sustainability of

Maternal Death

A female employee who became pregnant, and was a victim of maternal death will cause negative attrition to her company affecting again the social sustainability of one company.

Effect of Chronic Illness due to Poor Maternal Health to Social Sustainability

Poor health Lack of education Child Joblessness Lack of social interactions

Chronic Illness
Hospitalization causes financial suffering to the whole family. Budget for other activities such us improvement of welfare of the family is unnoticed since priority is on the maintenance of chronic illness.

A mother become jobless to attend to sick child due to chronic disease from poor maternal health.

Causes of Maternal Deaths

severe bleeding, 25% infections, 14% eclampsia, 12%

indirect causes, 20% other direct causes, 8% unsafe abortion, obstructed 13% labor, 8%

Indirect causes are the diseases that complicates pregnancy or other sickness that may aggravate pregnancy (e.g. malaria, anemia and HIV) Other direct causes high fertility rates and lack of education in family planning that results to poor postnatal care.

Status of Maternal Health in the Philippines

What can be done in order to Achieve the Maternal Health MDG

Antenatal healthcare intervention to save women and children by providing an early utilization program at a community level Four antenatal exams (recommended for cases without complications) Prevention of mother-to-child HIV/AIDS transmission (Antiretroviral treatment) Nutrition Delivery Skilled attendants at birth Postnatal healthcare Breastfeeding (and complimentary feeding) Obstetric fistula Treatment of reproductive tract infections Malaria Nets (Intermittent preventative treatment for pregnant women (malaria; IPTp)

Reproductive healthcare Reproductive procurement (Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition - e.g. AccessRH) Family planning (including education and contraceptive prevalence) Treatment for sexually transmitted infection Partner involvement

Social Sustainability relating to Economic and Environmental Aspects

Individual Right to Social Sustainability

UDHR, Article 25 (1) - everybody has the right to a standard of living adequate for health and well-being. And the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his/her control. (United Nations, Declaration of Human Rights Article 25 (1)

the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights states in Part III, Article 11, Paragraph 2 that: The States Parties to the present Covenant, recognizing the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger .shall take actions relating to the supply and production of food.

Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization (Article 5): respect to the rights held by indigenous peoples over genetic resources and for mutually agreed terms in Paragraph 2 of the article. It goes further to recognize benefits in both monetary and non-monetary terms in Para 4 of the same Article of the Protocol.

Global Inequality and Consumption (social and economic)

The richest fifth: Consume 45% of all meat and fish, the
poorest fifth 5% Consume 58% of total energy, the poorest fifth less than 4% Have 74% of all telephone lines, the poorest fifth 1.5% Consume 84% of all paper, the poorest fifth 1.1% Own 87% of the worlds vehicle fleet, the poorest fifth less than 1%

Not Equitable!

Living Environment (social and environment)

Rich

Poor

Not Bearable!

5 step approach towards Sustainable Development

How does a company take into account social sustainability

Conclusion
To sum it up, all three pillars (social, economic and environment) are needed in order to create a sustainable environment for people to live in.

Source
http://www.slideshare.net/ipcig/sociallysustainable-development-beyond-economicgrowth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy2yi7r5Ts http://www.mikethementor.co.uk/sustainabili ty/a_call_for_leadership.php