نتایج جستجو برای: maternal deaths

تعداد نتایج: 161917  

2011
Mary B Hadley Mary Tuba

BACKGROUND Maternal mortality in developing countries is high and international targets for reduction are unlikely to be met. Zambia's maternal mortality ratio was 591 per 100,000 live births according to survey data (2007) while routinely collected data captured only about 10% of these deaths. In one district in Zambia medical staff reviewed deaths occurring in the labour ward but no related r...

Journal: :Revista de saude publica 2007
Maria Helena de Sousa José Guilherme Cecatti Ellen Elizabeth Hardy Suzanne Jacob Serruya

OBJECTIVE To describe the characteristics of maternal mortality according to the Mortality Information System in relation to the data corresponding to these records that are in other systems. METHODS This was a descriptive study using two information systems on vital data and another on the hospital system, for the 26 state capitals and the Federal District of Brazil, in 2002. Initially, the ...

Journal: :Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2014
Sarah Saleem Elizabeth M McClure Shivaprasad S Goudar Archana Patel Fabian Esamai Ana Garces Elwyn Chomba Fernando Althabe Janet Moore Bhalachandra Kodkany Omrana Pasha Jose Belizan Albert Mayansyan Richard J Derman Patricia L Hibberd Edward A Liechty Nancy F Krebs K Michael Hambidge Pierre Buekens Waldemar A Carlo Linda L Wright Marion Koso-Thomas Alan H Jobe Robert L Goldenberg

OBJECTIVE To quantify maternal, fetal and neonatal mortality in low- and middle-income countries, to identify when deaths occur and to identify relationships between maternal deaths and stillbirths and neonatal deaths. METHODS A prospective study of pregnancy outcomes was performed in 106 communities at seven sites in Argentina, Guatemala, India, Kenya, Pakistan and Zambia. Pregnant women wer...

2012
Benedict O Asamoah Anette Agardh

INTRODUCTION The fight against maternal deaths has gained attention as the target date for Millennium Development Goal 5 approaches. Induced-abortion is one of the leading causes of maternal deaths in developing countries which hamper this effort. In Ghana, alcohol consumption and unwanted pregnancies are on the ascendancy. We examined the association between alcohol consumption and maternal mo...

Journal: :Biomedical papers of the Medical Faculty of the University Palacky, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia 2001
I Dhaifalah

Maternal mortality is a significant public health problem. In Yemen it is attributable to socioeconomic, reproductive, health-status and health-services factors, as well as to medical causes. Direct obstetrical causes account for 61% of maternal deaths in Yemen 75% after delivery. Hemorrhage has been found as the second cause of maternal death in Yemen, accounting for 23.68% of all causes, whil...

Journal: :The Indian journal of medical research 2007
Padam Singh Arvind Pandey Abha Aggarwal

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Estimation of maternal mortality has been difficult because of large sample size requirement. A study using snowball technique for identification of households where maternal death has taken place and its related causes was conducted. We present here the feasibility of carrying out the snowball technique for capturing maternal deaths as against house-to-house survey and t...

Journal: :PLoS Medicine 2008
Clara Menéndez Cleofé Romagosa Mamudo R Ismail Carla Carrilho Francisco Saute Nafissa Osman Fernanda Machungo Azucena Bardaji Llorenç Quintó Alfredo Mayor Denise Naniche Carlota Dobaño Pedro L Alonso Jaume Ordi

BACKGROUND Maternal mortality is a major health problem concentrated in resource-poor regions. Accurate data on its causes using rigorous methods is lacking, but is essential to guide policy-makers and health professionals to reduce this intolerable burden. The aim of this study was to accurately describe the causes of maternal death in order to contribute to its reduction, in one of the region...

2011
Abdalla A Mohammed Mahgoub H Elnour Eltayeb E Mohammed Samah A Ahmed Ahmed I Abdelfattah

BACKGROUND The maternal mortality ratio in Sudan was estimated at 750/100,000 live births. Sudan was one of eleven countries that are responsible for 65% of global maternal deaths according to a recent World Health Organization (WHO) estimate. Maternal mortality in Kassala State was high in national demographic surveys. This study was conducted to investigate the causes and contributing factors...

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