Football Fandom to improve mothers' health
Mother's Day on Sunday marks the introduction of an innovative program to improve the health of mothers by using the power of football.
The World Health Organization says that mother mortality is unacceptable. In 2023, more than 700 women died of avoidable causes in connection with pregnancy and birth every day, such as a WHO -Fact Sheet published last month.
It is a challenge that doctors, public health authorities and community employees have tried to cope with them.
Former professional football player Morad Fareed believes that he can lead to progress in improving the health of mothers through the love of sport.
Fareeds created FC mother, A community platform that is combined with an expectant and new mothers with a support network. The organization aims to transform global football clubs on platforms to improve public health, a broader concept that he calls “H-Sports” or healing sports.
“We united the world of maternal health and used football as a vehicle to distribute it, celebrate it and play it,” said Fareed.
The organization starts what it calls the “World Cup of Healing” – a competition that measures the health results of the participating women, which are grouped by their reported football fandom.
Mothers access the FC Mother Platform and then answer regular survey questions that evaluate their well -being. Improvements fuel team progress.
FC Mother has some remarkable buy-in researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health as well as team doctors from Real Madrid, Manchester United and Arsenal FC.
The FC mother uses the huge social infrastructure, the community and the competitive spirit of football to change the health of mothers.
The first competition starts on Sunday and runs for 60 days through the FIFA Club World Cup final in July. This sample run is used in Brazil and its associated fan bases by mothers against three in the United States: mothers of San Diego FC, mothers of Gotham FC and mothers of Omaha Union.
The FC mother landed the 48 World Cup countries due to the maternal health results based on data from the Institute for Health Certilizers and Reviews at the University of Washington. In the worldwide report of the institute's institute, the United States is subordinate to the 44th place, which is based on the 44th place on the basis of the years of life due to poor health results of the mothers who have been lost due to the poor results of mother health. Brazil is 46 ..
The team in the Inaugural Health Outcomes competition is trained by Jennie Joseph, the founder of Commonsense birth, who was appointed in 2022 by Time Magazine as a woman of the year for her national work as a midwife to improve mother mortality.
Fareed's goal is to play and prove the health of the community of maternal football and prove that it can increase the high -quality life of life for both mothers and children.
A Qualy is a year of life in perfect health, a metric used by large public health organizations. It is measured with a survey in which the respondents are asked about the reporting on mental and emotional health, pain levels and other health areas.
While the FC mother leaves the medical treatment of pregnancy in clinicians, Fare points for research that illustrate perinatal mental health and robust social support can create up to 10 additional years of life with higher quality for mothers and their descendants.
“The social determinants of health are the next border of maternal health and public health in general,” said Fareed. “It is not your doctor you will call. It is the community around you. It is the daily interactions in which you live your life, the stress levels, intellectual well -being and emotional well -being.”
As with any other sport, the ranking of FC Mother offers the statistics of the competing teams, but also offers users opportunities to access immediate support from other mothers. These functions are available via the FC Mother app or via the WhatsApp from Meta.
But the FC mother is not a charity. Fareed intends to be a profit -oriented company. He believes that companies, professional sports, family offices and donor funds will be interested in investing in a platform that provides health improvements for a fraction of the current costs for medical interventions.
FC Mother hopes that the Kickoff competition will deliver Proof-of-Concept-Proopt-of-Concept and 40 football clubs will convince to take part in a competition on the maternal health of health during the World Cup in 2026.
– Jessica Golden from CNBC contributed to this report.
