Current challenges in pregnancy-related mortality |
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| Institution: | 1. Albany Medical College, Albany, New York;2. Children''s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;1. Institute of Gerontology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia;2. Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Faculty of Human Ecology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia;1. School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;2. Graduate School of Public Health, Epidemiology Data Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;3. University of Colorado – Colorado Springs, CO, USA;4. Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA;1. UCL Institute for Global Health, University College London, London WC1N 1EH, UK;2. Perinatal Care Project, Diabetic Association of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
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| Abstract: | Pregnancy is a normal, healthy state that most women are desirous for at some point in their lives. Sadly, this life-affirming process carries serious risks of death and disability for both mother and offspring. Maternal mortality rates are especially high in resource poor countries, despite the fact that 80% of all maternal deaths are preventable. Although maternal mortality is slowly declining, the goal of reducing maternal deaths to a quarter of the 1990 levels, before 2015, remains a challenging target. To achieve this target, care providers, researchers and policy makers must not only identify the key barriers to accessing quality healthcare, but commit to making maternal health a priority. |
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| Keywords: | death haemorrhage infection maternal mortality obstructed labour pre-eclampsia resource poor countries unsafe abortion |
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