Sentences with phrase «maternal deaths every year»

The consequences of this include almost 300,000 preventable maternal deaths every year.

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The 700 to 900 deaths each year related to pregnancy and childbirth, though, overshadow a more pervasive problem that experts call «severe maternal morbidity.»

(For an interesting global perspective on contraception, be sure to check out Rachel Marie Stone's post on the topic, where she cites this powerful statistic from USAID: «Family planning could prevent up to 30 percent of the more than 287,000 maternal deaths that occur every year, by enabling women to delay their first pregnancy and space later pregnancies at the safest intervals.

My country has over the last five years seen c - section rate rise steadily to over 30 %, and maternal mortality rate drop significantly from 21 to 14 deaths per 100 000 births.

There are only about 125,000 babies born each year in Belgium, according to Wikipedia, and maternal death rates in the first world are measured in deaths per hundred thousand.

No, in a country as small as Belgium, for an event as rare as maternal death, I would expect to see fluctuations from year to year.

Yes, there were 20 maternal deaths in the hospital last year.

As for home birth deaths, at least one home birth death last year was a maternal fatality — Caroline Lovell.

Thus, the US maternal death rate dropped from 1000 in 100,000 to 10 in 100,000 deliveries in less than 90 years.

Optimal breastfeeding for the first 2 years of life is the single most effective intervention to prevent child deaths worldwide.1 Breastfeeding saves children's lives, supports their growth and development, preventsmalnutrition, ensures food security for infants, protects maternal and child health, reduces financial pressure on families, supports loving relationships and increases educational attainment.

We considered a range of prespecified maternal, fetal, and neonatal outcomes, including fetal death, neonatal death (defined as death during the first 28 days after birth), perinatal death (a composite of fetal and neonatal deaths), and infant death (defined as death during the first year of life).

With a target of halving maternal and newborn deaths in facilities in 5 years, national governments from 9 first wave countries and partners are joining forces to establish a Network to improve the quality of care provided to mothers, newborns and children.

WHO and partners have established a network to halve maternal and newborn deaths and stillbirths in health facilities within five years in nine participating countries

The New York City department of health recorded all maternal deaths across several years, a key finding was that uninsured women were seven times more likely to die than women with health insurance.

Therefore, a woman could die of a pregnancy related cause, a pulmonary embolus for example, and if the practitioner doesn't mention that she is pregnant or was pregnant within the last year, it is isn't flagged as a maternal death.

2) As for deaths of mothers, death certificates in the USA WERE changed about 25 years ago to record whether a woman was or had recently been pregnant and whether the coroner considered it a maternal death.

I find this shocking, especially since we know that the maternal death rate has been rising in recent years — something that isn't happening in other countries» [9] Currently, according to the World Health Organization and several United Nations agencies, the United States ranks behind no fewer than forty other nations in preventing maternal deaths (based upon an official but unreliable number).

AJOG neglects to point out that having only one maternal death at hospital birth would be a great blessing when in the US annually 277 young healthy women bleed to death among the 1,386,000 cesareans performed each year.

The agenda must address universal health - care coverage, access and affordability; end preventable maternal, new - born and child deaths and malnutrition ensure the protection, promotion and support of exclusive breastfeeding for six months and continued breastfeeding with adequate complementary feeding for 2 years and beyond ensure the availability of essential medicines; realize women's reproductive health and rights; ensure immunization coverage; eradicate malaria and realize the vision of a future free of AIDS and tuberculosis; reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases, including mental illness, nervous system injuries and road accidents; and promote healthy behaviours, including those related to breastfeeding, water, sanitation and hygiene.

In Nigeria, the disease is responsible for 60 % outpatient visits to health facilities, 30 % childhood death, 25 % of death in children under one year and 11 % maternal death.

(Anderson's branch of CDC counts maternal mortality as death during pregnancy or in the following 42 days; some other researchers look at the whole year after giving birth.)

Possibly as a result of these societal barriers, since 1980 the Ivory Coast and Zimbabwe have both experienced increases in maternal mortality rates — in Zimbabwe deaths have jumped by 5.5 percent each year in the past two decades, in part because of low female social status and ongoing political conflict.

Although global rates of maternal death have been dropping by about 1.5 percent each year since 1980, there is still a long way to go if countries hope to meet United Nations Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 by 2015 — a 75 percent reduction in the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births from 1990 levels.

Preeclampsia is the leading cause of preterm delivery in industrialized nations and accounts for up to 75,000 maternal deaths worldwide each year.

The researchers of this study wanted to know if maternal and fetal death ratios were higher on weekends versus weekdays or during different months of the year.

Globally, the number of maternal deaths dropped 43 % to an estimated 303,000 this year from about 532,000 in 1990, or to 216 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births from 385 in 1990, the report said.

PCC's efforts are just one example of efforts to attain a global goal set 15 years ago, when world leaders committed themselves to decreasing the maternal death rate by 75 percent from 1990 to 2015.

In countries where the average years of schooling is rising, maternal death rates are falling, too.

It is difficult to determine exactly what proportion of those losses are due to maternal malnutrition, but recent research indicates that 60 percent of deaths of children under age 5 are associated with malnutrition — and children's malnutrition is strongly correlated with mothers» poor nutritional status.17 Problems related to anemia, for example, including cognitive impairment in children and low productivity in adults, cost US$ 5 billion a year in South Asia alone.18 Illness associated with nutrient deficiencies have significantly reduced the productivity of women in less developed countries.19 A recent report from Asia shows that malnutrition reduces human productivity by 10 percent to 15 percent and gross domestic product by 5 percent to 10 percent.20 By improving the nutrition of adolescent girls and women, nations can reduce health care costs, increase intellectual capacity, and improve adult productivity.21

Having worked overseas for nearly 40 years, Planned Parenthood has seen firsthand the terrible consequences arising from inadequate access to reproductive health care, including unnecessary maternal deaths.

An inventory of life events was administered during the 1985 - 1986 maternal and offspring interviews to assess life events that the youths had experienced during the past 2 years: death of a loved one, failure to achieve an important goal, high risk of being fired or laid off from one's job, parental separation or divorce, the end of a romantic relationship or rejection by a romantic partner, serious injury or illness, serious fights with family members, serious financial problems, serious problems at school or work, trouble with the law, and having experienced a crime or an assault.

In several other studies, maternal prenatal stressful life events such as divorce, mourning the death of a loved one, job loss or financial problems were associated with AD in 3 — 14 year olds, independent of sociodemographic factors or known atopy risk factors, like allergen exposure [16 — 18].

For example, death rates among Aboriginal people from pneumonia have dropped by 40 per cent since 1996, following the roll - out of pneumococcal vaccinations, The «Strong Babies, Strong Culture» maternal health program has shown that significant reductions in the number of low birth weight babies can occur within a matter of years.