Black Maternal Mortality- Systemic and Structural Factors Contributing to Disproportionate Rates of Black Maternal Death during Childbirth

Death in childbirth: an international study of maternal care and maternal mortality 1800–1950

To say that Irvine Loudon's Death in childbirth is a hard read might seem both offensive and paradoxical. Few studies have concentrated on the topic, none of them on international comparisons, and did not his earlier Medical care and the general practitioner 1750-1850 receive rave reviews, thisjournal, for instance, saying that it was crammed with wonderful detail? Yet there is neither insult n...

Maternal mortality in rural Gambia: levels, causes and contributing factors.

A demographic study carried out in a rural area of the Gambia between January 1993 and December 1998 recorded 74 deaths among women aged 15-49 years. Reported here is an estimation of maternal mortality among these 74 deaths based on a survey of reproductive age mortality, which identified 18 maternal deaths by verbal autopsy. Over the same period there were 4245 live births in the study area, ...

Childbirth and Maternal Mortality in Morocco: The Role of Midwives

Amina, a 20 year-old woman, living in a small rural village of Morocco, is expecting her first baby. Her labour started when she was at term while her husband was far away; her mother-in-law was assisting her. After almost 24 hours of difficult labour, seeing the distress that Amina was going through, the mother-in-law called for her second son in order to help for a transfer to the nearest vil...

Postpartum Hemorrhage Causes Maternal Mortality

Factors contributing to maternal mortality in north-central Nigeria: a seventeen-year review.

Maternal mortality ratio in Nigeria is one of the highest in the world. This paper reports a facility based study in north-central Nigeria to determine the magnitude, trends, causes and characteristics of maternal deaths before and after the launch of the Safe Motherhood Initiative in Nigeria, with a view to suggesting strategic interventions to reduce these deaths. The records of all deliverie...