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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Maternal death"”.
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The Politics of Affliction: Crisis, the State, and the Coloniality of Maternal Death in Bolivia
… counterpoint with competing notions of birth, death, affliction, and the role of civil society, as perceived within a climate of unexpected crisis and renewal. As its central ethnographic case study I focus on chronically elevated rates of maternal mortality in Bolivia, and in particular the …
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The Effects of Socio-Cultural Factors on Maternal Death in Tanzania: A Case of Makete District Njombe Region
… assess the effects of socio-cultural factors on maternal death in Tanzania with particular focus on Makete district in Njombe .region. The study attempted to answer the following questions: What are the social factors that contribute to maternal death in rural areas of Tanzania? What are the …
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The role of midwives in the implementation of maternal death review (MDR) in health facilities In Ashanti region, Ghana
Background and Problem Statement: Maternal mortality is a global health issue, which mostly affects the developing countries. The United Nations (UN) member states have made a commitment to reduce maternal mortality by 75% by 2015. However, one of the biggest challenges in monitoring maternal …
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Exploring the journey to maternal death: gender and human rights perspectives on the major causes of maternal mortality in the Western Cape province, South Africa
… to examine and analyse the major causes of maternal mortality, which result from delay in seeking maternity care and failure to attend maternity care during pregnancy. A gender approach was used to identify and analyse inequalities that arise from belonging to one sex or from unequal power …
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The impact of the SARS-COV-2 pandemic on maternal mortality in a South African Metropole (2020-21)
… pandemic there was a notable increase in maternal deaths across South Africa. Pre-pandemic, the Western Cape Province had made significant strides towards reducing maternal mortality. However, this progress was reversed in the pandemic period despite a relative protection of maternal care …
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Obstetric Outcome in Teenage Pregnancies at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka
… stillbirths, asphyxia, ruptured uterus and maternal death. Teenagers had poorer maternal outcomes especially in terms of eclampsia, and had more instrumental deliveries. More of their babies had low birth weights, severe birth asphyxia and more were stillborn. Maternal death and ruptured …
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Obstetric Outcome in Teenage Pregnancies at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka
… stillbirths, asphyxia, ruptured uterus and maternal death. Teenagers had poorer maternal outcomes especially in terms of eclampsia, and had more instrumental deliveries. More of their babies had low birth weights, severe birth asphyxia and more were stillborn. Maternal death and ruptured …
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Pregnancy related maternal deaths at Salt River Forensic Pathology Laboratory: a 5 year retrospective study of the epidemiological data and spectrum of pathology and disease in all pregnancy related deaths at Salt River Pathology Laboratory irrespect
Death of women whilst pregnant and in the post-partum period is a huge burden of disease in South Africa. All confidential enquiries and research into pregnancy related deaths in South Africa have focused on examining the cases based on the WHO definition of maternal death and have excluded deaths …
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Vascular biology in the menstrual cycle, pregnancy and pre-eclampsia
… thromboembolism are the most common causes of maternal death in the United Kingdom. Pre-eclampsia is associated with increase in immediate and lifetime risk of adverse thrombotic events. Both pregnancy and the follicular phase are associated with arterial thrombosis and myocardial infarction. …
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An Analysis of Maternal Health in Burkina Faso
… Goals, the fifth of which is to “improve maternal health”. Burkina Faso has made good strides towards improving maternal health and has achieved a 57% reduction in the maternal mortality ratio between 1990 and 2010. While the lifetime risk of maternal death remains elevated at 1 in 55, in …
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Factors associated with maternal mortality in South Africa (2003-2008)
Maternal death is the death of woman during pregnancy or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or external causes. Health complications during pregnancy and child birth are a major challenge …
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Adverse obstetric outcomes in adolescent pregnancy in rural Zambia-the case of Kawambwa and Mansa Districts of Luapula Province
… The aim of this study was to investigate the maternal and perinatal outcomes among adolescents aged between 10 and 19years compared to older mothers aged between 20-24years delivering at selected health facilities in Kawambwa and Mansa. Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional analysis was …
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Protecting the Pregnant Occupant: Dynamic Material Properties of Uterus and Placenta
Automobile crashes are the largest cause of death for pregnant females and the leading cause of traumatic fetal injury mortality in the United States. The first way to protect the fetus is to protect the mother considering that maternal death has a near 100% fetal loss rate. If the mother survives, …
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Maternal Mortality at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka,1996
Maternal mortality in developed countries has declined dramatically over the last 60 years, and is now very low. Women in industrialized countries have an average lifetime risk of dying from pregnancy-related causes of between 1 in 4000 and 1 in 10,000 pregnancies whereas women in developing …
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Information Interventions to Reduce Maternal Mortality in Indonesia
… consistently records higher levels of maternal mortality than other countries in Southeast Asia with its same level of socioeconomic development. I use a quasi-experimental, difference-in-differences approach to understand whether the role of information on the risk of death in …
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A comparison of maternal and neonatal outcomes of pregnant women with and without evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the Western Cape, South Africa
… infection itself could partly account for high maternal mortality rates observed in the Western Cape, indirect effects of the pandemic such as movement restrictions and health service pressure may also have played a role. There is limited data on the impact of having a SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis …
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Konservatyvi ektopinio kiaušintakinio nėštumo priežiūra. Mokslinės literatūros apžvalga /
… in recent years, it remains the leading cause of maternal death during the first trimester of pregnancy. It affects approximately 2% of pregnant women, with tubal localization accounting for 98% of ectopic pregnancies. Various factors increase the risk of tubal pregnancy, including a history of …
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Clinical Officers in Malawi: Expanding access to comprehensive emergency obstetric care
… almost identical in the two groups in terms of maternal general condition = both immediately and 24 hours postoperatively - and regarding occurrence of pyrexia, wound infection, wound dehiscence, need for re-operation, neonatal outcome or maternal death. Conclusion: Clinical officers perform the …
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Investigating FDA-Approved Drugs for Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae
… abortion, infertility, pelvic pain, and maternal death. Neisseria gonorrhoeae has developed resistance to the formally and currently used antibiotics. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have listed multi-drug resistant N. gonorrhoeae as an urgent threat that promptly …
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Mode of Entry and Survival of Salmonella Enterica Serovar Typhimurium in Trophoblast Cells
… species contributing to miscarriage and/or maternal illness. Previous studies indicated that Salmonella infection in pregnant mice caused rapid fetal and maternal death due to massive bacterial proliferation in the placenta. However, the susceptibility of human primary trophoblast cells …
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