.." NP) Other messages of the campaign were to stress the need to avoid high risk pregnancy, prior to age 18 or after age 35 and to stagger pregnancies by two years to help the maternal body recover and be strong enough to care for the developing infant and go through labor successfully. The campaign, promoting these ideas states that it has been successful in reaching its goals, and has currently reached 66% of the population in the regions where the campaign was launched. ("Let My Baby Live..." NP) There is not mention as to whether the campaign will end, or be expanded to a broader audience in Turkey.
Turkey's example program could serve as a template for other health issues that need to be expressed to the public in Turkey and in other nations with challenged health care delivery infrastructures and limited public knowledge of needed care, in pregnancy as well as in disease related conditions. The need to redistribute medical care, across geographical regions can be met to some degree with education, as has been seen in the e-medicine movement, yet Turkey still has many obstacles to overcome to effectively distribute basic and advanced medical care across the nation. Additionally, women have a particularly challenged role, when it comes to health care, as well as other social issues, as the traditional social order frequently puts them in a position of subservience, and they are expected to fulfill traditional roles in this environment without question. Though this is slowly changing, and women have gained a bit more voice especially in education and government the traditional roles are still very intricsic to the nation and the culture.
Weiker 57)
If I were making decisions about the issue of health care and the ongoing health crisis of maternal and infant mortality in Turkey, I would expand the media campaign, through the infrastructure of the culture, to include not only recognized underserved populations but the entire population of the nation. Regardless of the pervasiveness of the idea that care is not needed during this seemingly natural human condition, modern medicine needs to reiterate that care can prevent or avoid completely many often tragic circumstances through very simple...
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