Definition: The maternal mortality rate (MMR) is the annual number of female deaths per 100,000 live births from any cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy or its management (excluding accidental or incidental causes). The MMR includes deaths during pregnancy, childbirth, or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, for a specified year.
Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of January 1, 2014See also: Maternal mortality rate map
Launched: A project to reduce maternal and child mortality by 2020 in Kenya.
wvi.org - 12/2/2016 10:58:23 AM
Kenya has long suffered from high maternal, newborn and child morbidity and mortality rates ... change and enrich policy at Country level. The knowledge products will be shared to shape and define MNCHN programming globally. World Vision Kenya will ...
How Midwifery Scheme that Reduced Infant, Maternal Mortality was Jettisoned
This Day Live - 12/8/2016 1:40:04 AM
The World Health ... time high across the country. For instance, in Kano State, hospital-based maternal mortality was between 3000 and 4000 per 100,000 live births, while in Lagos State, where everyone would think the mortality rate would be very low ...
A UMD professor discussed maternal mortality in Africa and what the U.S. can learn from it
dbknews.com - 11/29/2016 3:30:58 AM
according to the World Health Organization. One reason maternal mortality rates in this region remain high is because many women don't have access to contraceptives, Reed said. She added that there might be similar concerns growing in this country.
Countries With The Highest Maternal Mortality Rates
worldatlas.com - 7/24/2016 11:56:30 PM
Other countries with high maternal mortality rates (and their respective numbers of maternal ... In addition, international organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) work with government officials and community members to increase knowledge ...
Leave no child behind: Moving the agenda forward
SciDev.Net - 11/29/2016 3:55:25 PM
Most of the world now recognises that ... Since 2000, 24 low- and lower-middle-income countries – including Ethiopia, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique and Niger - have achieved the goal of reducing their under-five mortality rate by two-thirds.
How close to zero?
www.brookings.edu - 12/1/2016 4:28:51 PM
Country income groups follow the World Bank’s classifications ... We then extrapolate the same trend out to 2030. For maternal mortality, child mortality, and neonatal mortality, we use proportional rate of progress calculations (Equation 1) to account ...
PNG to effectively ban home births in bid to reduce high maternal, infant mortality rates
ABC Online - 11/29/2016 2:29:32 PM
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister is proposing drastic measures to reduce the country's shockingly high maternal and infant mortality rates. 1,500 women die in ... Audio: Listen to Eric Tlozek's story (The World Today) "If we've got the money, let's ...
Guyana among regional countries with highest maternal mortality rates
Stabroek News - 5/10/2014 8:58:24 AM
However, this is not the case as the country is among five in the Carib-bean and the Americas with the highest rates of maternal ... changes in maternal mortality worldwide and by region and country. It was produced jointly by the World Health Organ ...
Texas’ maternal death rates top most industrialized countries
USA Today - 9/10/2016 1:05:27 PM
The clinic is on a frontline mission to reverse a disturbing trend in Texas: Women in the state are dying of pregnancy-related ailments at a higher rate than the rest of the country and ... and head of the state’s Maternal Mortality and MorbidityTask ...
Maternal Mortality Rate in U.S. Rises, Defying Global Trend, Study Finds
New York Times - 9/21/2016 9:27:48 PM
WASHINGTON — One of the biggest worldwide public health triumphs in recent years has been maternal mortality. Global death rates fell by more than a third from 2000 to 2015. The United States, however, is one of the few countries in the world that have ...
$10M Expansion Aims to Curb Child Mortality
The Cambodia Daily - 11/29/2016 12:39:10 AM
A nearly $10 million expansion of the National Maternal and ... centers” across the country, so they can provide quality obstetric care, said Buth Sophin, a doctor at the center. Last year, Cambodia’s infant mortality rate was about 25 per 1,000 ...
Our maternal mortality rate is a national embarrassment
Washington Post - 11/18/2015 5:38:56 PM
The United States ranks near the bottom of the world ... countries, where health-care access is universal. So in the United States, the mothers who need care the most may be getting the least of it, which naturally leads to higher maternal mortality rates.
Comment: Maternal mortality still high in poor countries
Times Colonist - 10/28/2016 8:05:08 AM
Every day, about 830 mothers around the world die due to pregnancy and childbirth ... to the number of births — what’s called the maternal mortality ratio — is much higher in low-income countries. In 2015, the maternal mortality ratio in low-income ...
Top Five Countries with Highest Rates of Maternal Mortality
International Business Times - 5/6/2014 12:59:22 PM
Sub-Saharan Africa is still the riskiest region in the world for ... with nine other countries accounts for 60% global maternal deaths. Around 40,000 pregnant women died in Nigeria in 2013, WHO said. In Nigeria maternal mortality rate can reach up to ...