Technological Advances/Limitations: Disease After 1900 Practice Test

Weak health infrastructure and unequal access to emergency care limited benefits of modern obstetrics, especially in rural and poor communities.

International organizations prohibited training midwives, so countries were forced to rely solely on untrained practitioners in all regions.

Maternal deaths increased because antibiotics prevent bleeding, leading hospitals to abandon basic obstetric practices after 1900.

Medical advances were irrelevant because childbirth is never affected by health systems, only by climate and seasonal rainfall patterns.

Transportation improved everywhere equally by 1910, so delays in reaching care cannot explain differences in maternal mortality.