Beyond the Numbers: Reviewing Maternal Deaths and Complications to Make Pregnancy Safer.Beyond the Numbers: Reviewing Maternal Deaths and Complications to Make Pregnancy Safer World Health Organization, 2004 In order to reduce pregnancy-associated deaths and complications across the world we need to know not only how many women die or surfer but why, in order to devise and implement appropriate interventions. Beyond the Numbers looks at ways of generating this kind of information, considering the practical issues involved and comparing different approaches. There is a detailed analysis of the pros and cons of information obtained from different kinds of review including verbal autopsies, facility-based data of maternal deaths, interviews with survivors of pregnancy-associated near-mortality incidents, and the role of clinical audit. The importance of a confidential, non-threatening approach to obtaining relevant information is emphasised as is the necessity for a commitment to act on review findings in order to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality Morbidity and Mortality can refer to:
Available from: Department of Reproductive Health Within the framework of WHO's definition of health[1] as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, reproductive health, or sexual health/hygiene and Research World Health Organization Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva. , Switzerland E-mail: rhrpublications@who.int Web: <http://www.who.int[reproductive-health/publications/btn/btn.pdf> |
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