Maternal Deaths
Towards elimination of maternal deaths: maternal deaths surveillance and response
... on maternal mortality ratios or rates is notoriously difficult given the lack of reliable vital registration in developing countries and problems in the ascertainment of pregnancy status especially in its early ...
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Indirect cost of maternal deaths in the WHO African Region in 2010
... of maternal deaths for those aged under 15 years and 15–49 years were regional estimates from the WHO disease and injury database ...total maternal deaths for 2010 were from Trends in ...
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Confidential enquiries into maternal deaths in Ondo State, Nigeria – a comparative analysis
... the maternal deaths included socio- demographic characteristics, place, date and time of death; suspected causes (in the absence of confirm- ation post-mortems) as well as any special circum- stances ...
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Maternal Deaths Due to Liver Disease in Malaysia
... Maternal Deaths Due to Liver Disease in Malaysia ORIGINAL ARTICLE Maternal Deaths Due To Liver Disease In Malaysia J Ravindran, FRCOG*, R Jayadev, MBBS*, S R Lachmanan, MRCP**, I Merican, FRCP**, *Dep[.] ...
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Puerperal sepsis, the leading cause of maternal deaths at a Tertiary University Teaching Hospital in Uganda
... Direct maternal death is the death of a woman resulting from obstetric complications of pregnancy, labor and puerperium; from interventions, omissions or incor- rect treatment; or from a chain of events resulting ...
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Maternal deaths in Zimbabwe: Is it a crime to be a woman in Zimbabwe?
... high maternal (and newborn) mortality have very limited resources, overstretched health workers, and relatively weak systems and governance (Koblinsky, ...analyzed maternal deaths as well as ...
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Epidemiologic Profile of Maternal Deaths in Two Referral Hospitals in Cameroon
... of maternal mortality in two structures serving as referral levels of care in ...The maternal mortality ratio (MMR) was 964 and 247 per 100,000 live births for YCH and BRH, ...More deaths occurred ...
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Millennium development Goal 5: progress and challenges in reducing maternal deaths in Ghana
... tracking maternal deaths [6, 36, 37] due to the absence of complete and accurate registration systems ...of maternal deaths, and difficulties tracking births that do not occur in health ...
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Sudden Maternal Deaths Probably Due to Obstetrical Pulmonary Embolism in Malaysia, 1991
... Sudden Maternal Deaths Probably Due to Obstetrical Pulmonary Embolism In Malaysia for 1991 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Sudden Maternal Deaths Probably Due to Obstetrical Pulmonary Embolism In Malaysia for 1991 J[.] ...
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Maternal deaths in Pakistan : intersection of gender, class and social exclusion
... five maternal deaths that had occurred in the village within the past five years (one during the field work ...two maternal deaths and their inter-relationships with gender and socio-economic ...
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Maternal mortality revisited: the application of the new ICD-MM classification system in reference to maternal deaths in Sri Lanka
... district maternal mortality surveillance reports from the office of regional director of health services of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa districts; the two districts in ...ported deaths of pregnant and post ...
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Anaesthetis Related Maternal Deaths in Malaysia A Review
... Anaesthetic Related Maternal Deaths in Malaysia A Review Anaesthetic Re~a thd Maternal s i Malaysia A Review A Review A M Dalina, FFARCS, K Inbasegaran, FANZCA, Department of Anaesthesiology, Hospital[.] ...
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Study of maternal deaths in Kerian (1976 1980)
... Study of maternal deaths in Kerian (1976 1980) Med J Malaysia Vol 37 No 2 June 1982 STUDY (1976 H YADAV OF MATERNAL 1980) DEATHS IN KERIAN SUMMARY Maternal deaths in Kerian district during a 5 year pe[.] ...
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Analysis of maternal deaths: autopsy study at tertiary health care center
... had gestation between 13 to 20 weeks. 67 (70.5) cases were registered for routine antenatal checkup. Greater than or equal to 3 ANC visits was seen in 59 (62.1%) cases and rest 8 (8.4%) cases had less than 3 ANC visits. ...
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Maternal deaths in Sagamu in the new millennium: a facility based retrospective analysis
... In summary, ten years from the deadline of United Nations' MDG, pregnancy and childbirth remains very unsafe in Sagamu, Southwest Nigeria and the situation is worse than in the previous years. The present MMR sug- gests ...
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The impact of HIV infection on maternal deaths in South Africa
... to maternal deaths in ...new maternal death classification system facilitated understanding of the impact of HIV infection on maternal deaths and can be recommended to other ...Improved ...
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Obstetric near miss events and maternal deaths in a tertiary care hospital
... There are three delays which have been identified to analyse the gaps in the management of obstetric emergencies leading to severe maternal complications and death. First delay is in seeking health care by the ...
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PREventing Maternal And Neonatal Deaths (PREMAND): a study protocol for examining social and cultural factors contributing to infant and maternal deaths and near-misses in rural northern Ghana
... There are several ethical considerations unique to a project like this one. First, the sensitive nature of social autopsy and near-miss research means that participants may not be comfortable discussing their health or ...
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THE THREE DELAYS OF MATERNAL MORTALITY IN A TEACHING HOSPITAL
... of maternal deaths. Fortuitous deaths and deaths due to Gynaecological causes were excluded from the study. Delay was defined as by Thaddeus and Maine6. Three types of delays have been ...
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Institutional maternal and perinatal deaths: a review of 40 low and middle income countries
... of maternal deaths is likely to be in- complete given the primary sources of the statistics – routine paper-based logbooks – the extended coverage of 12 months, and for unintentional and intentional ...
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