background: improving maternal health is one of the eight millennium development goals (mdgs) aimed at improving maternal healthcare and reducing maternal mortality. the utilization of maternal health services is influenced by several factors that need to be better understood. the objective of this study was to estimate the role of socio-economic position as a determinant of the utilization of ...

background: maternal mortality ratio (mmr) is one of the main indicators of the millennium development goals and its accurate estimation is very important for the countries concerned. the objective of this study is to evaluate the applicability of capture‑recapture (crc) as an analytical method to estimate mmr in countries. methods: we used the crc method to estimate mmr in iran for 2004 and 20...

objective: the maternal mortality ratio is an important health indicator. we presented the distribution and causes of maternal mortality in islamic republic of iran. materials and methods: after provision of an electronic registry system for date entry, a descriptive-retrospective data collection had been performed for all maternal deaths in march 2009- march 2012. all maternal deaths and their...

abstract background: many maternal deaths caused are due to preventable causes during pregnancy and childbirth. therefore, the detailed analysis of the root causes provides developing a plan and appropriate interventions to prevent these deaths occurring in the health system. this study aims to determine the causes of maternal mortality using root cause analysis (rca) method. materials and meth...

OBJECTIVE Maternal morbidity and/or mortality (MM) is increased in pyelonephritis and influenza. Alterations in the immune response could account for the increase MM. We sought to determine whether the immune response is functionally different during pregnant and nonpregnant (NP) states. STUDY DESIGN Mouse model of systemic and localized inflammation was used. Maternal serum was assessed for ...

This is an attempt to measure maternal mortality in England from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Data are from the registers of three Somerset parishes in the West of England. The author attempts to measure maternal mortality firstly by comparing differential mortality of husbands and wives over the first 15 years of marriage. Secondly, he attempts to calculate it through a limited ...

BACKGROUND The causes of maternal death are now classified internationally according to ICD-MM. One significant change with the introduction of ICD-MM in 2012 was the reclassification of maternal suicide from the indirect group to the direct group. This has led to concerns about the impact of this reclassification on calculated mortality rates. The aim of this analysis was to examine the trends...

OBJECTIVE To compare methodology used to assign cause of and factors contributing to maternal death. DESIGN Reproductive Age Mortality Study. SETTING Malawi. POPULATION Maternal deaths among women of reproductive age. METHODS We compared cause of death as assigned by a facility-based maternal death review team, an expert panel using the International Classification of Disease, 10th revi...

How relevant is religion to our understanding of maternal health (MH) service utilization in sub-Saharan Africa? We ask this question mainly because while the effect of religion on some aspects of reproductive behavior (e.g., fertility, contraception) has not gone unnoticed in the region, very few studies have examined the possible link with MH service utilization. Understanding this link in th...