Posts Tagged ‘maternal mortality’
Abortion and Health of Pregnant Women
Many of the voices calling for the life of an unborn seem to ignore the risk to life and health that every pregnancy carries with women. In our country, maternal mortality has not declined in 30 years. 30% of deaths are from clandestine abortions. The other 70% is delivered in multiple diseases and birth of the third quarter mainly affecting healthy women who began the pregnancy, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, postpartum hemorrhage.
Each woman risks her life and health with each pregnancy, the desire to bring another life into the world. Nobody should be forced to hazard their lives to bring another to the world. Those who raise their voices saying that giving a child for adoption, do not know if arriegrÃan their lives so easily. We see defenderese with all legal means diponsibles when sentenced to prison for pedophilia, for example .. and just about lose my freedom!
Global Study of Preterm Birth
The World Health Organization has recently published a study which raised a number of objectives, such as evaluating the incidence of preterm birth and knows their distribution in the world to develop strategies for prevention and action.
Global prematurity rates, regional distribution and assessment strategies have been the targets they have set the research team led by Stacy Beck in the study has been published by WHO in its official gazette the name of “Impact World of preterm birth: systematic review of maternal morbidity and mortality. ”
To accomplish this were based on data on maternal mortality and morbidity between 1997 and 2002 officers also carried out a widespread search which extended the period until the year 2007, with missing data and models were found by multiple regressions specific to each location.
A 9.6% of premature births registered in 2005, of which 85% of those between Africa and Asia, 7% in the Caribbean and Latin America and 4% in both Europe and North America, excluding Mexico. Read the rest of this entry »