Category: India, Maternal Mortality

Categories: India, Health | Maternal Mortality

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Definition: "Maternal death is the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes. To facilitate the identification of maternal deaths in circumstances in which cause of death attribution is inadequate, a new category has been introduced: Pregnancy-related death is defined as the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the cause of death.

Related Categories: India Infant Mortality, Stillbirth and India Child Mortality

For more information, see:

• The Maternal Deaths Sticker
• Wikipedia: Maternal death
• World Health Organization (WHO): Maternal mortality
• World Health Organisation description of Maternal mortality ratio

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