Maternal and child health is a human right | Aparna Hedge

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Overcrowded clinics, extensive wait times and overworked doctors are taking a devastating toll on mothers and children in India. In this eye-opening talk, urogynecologist and TED Fellow Aparna Hegde exposes the systemic gaps that lead to preventable deaths every minute -- and introduces a scalable, affordable and empowering tech solution that improves maternal and child health habits, upends patriarchal family dynamics and saves lives.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:07.2	This is Ted Health.
0:08.2	I'm your host, Dr. Shoshana Unger-Lighter.
0:11.2	You're about to hear story about how a medical residence experience in an under-resourced
0:17.7	clinic in Mumbai sparked an idea that would later save the lives of countless women and
0:23.4	babies.
0:24.4	In her May 2021 Ted Fellows talk, maternal health innovator Dr. Aparna Hedge shares why
0:31.0	providing young women with the right medical information at the right time not only prevents
0:37.1	illness but can also create lasting culture change for generations to come.
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0:53.7	What does adulthood mean in a place where more than three-quarters of people between ages
0:57.5	18 and 35 live with their parents?
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1:08.7	Wherever you get your podcasts.
1:11.7	Anita died in my presence while giving birth to life.
1:16.6	She bled to death and lost her child.
1:20.4	The irony was that she had access to care.
1:24.0	In the first Prime Minister of pregnancy, she had visited the anti-natal clinic of the hospital
1:29.0	in Mumbai where I was doing residency.
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