Maternal mortality in rural and urban Zimbabwe: Social and reproductive factors in an incident case-referent study

Mbizvo, Michael T.; Fawcus, Susan; Lindmark, Gunilla; Nyström, Lennart

doi:10.1016/0277-9536(93)90240-5

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“…This result is in line with a studies conducted in Zimbabawe maternity hospital, 1993 and in high lands northern Tanzania, 2008 14,15 . A possible reason for high risk of maternal death by the age between 35-49 years may be due to weakened uterus, anemia, being pregnant in women more than 35years old by it self is risk for maternal death, and majority of women in this age were not educated.…”

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“…Additionally, considerable variations in causes of maternal death are often seen in rural versus urban settings. For example, women from rural Zimbabwe are more likely to die from abortion-related infection, while women from urban regions are more likely to die from infection subsequent to the delivery of her baby [ 26 ]. In the next section, we identify the barriers to preventing each individual cause of death and introduce a few example innovations that are in early stages of development.…”

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Maternal Health Innovations and Urbanization

Eckardt

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Ahn

et al. 2015

Innovating for Healthy Urbanization

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“…Even when it is not a woman's intention to commit suicide but merely to terminate pregnancy, death may be the ultimate result. A community-based study in Zimbabwe found four suicides in a total of 85 maternal deaths 18 and a study in Lusaka, Zambia, found nine abortions and one suicide among 60 reported maternal deaths 19 . In the current study one case of suicide was due to intravenous drug use.…”

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Violent deaths: the hidden face of maternal mortality

Granja

2002

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

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Objective To review pregnancy-related deaths due to injuries, to identify the characteristics of these women and to compare the magnitude of injury-related maternal deaths to that of other causes of maternal death. Design A retrospective study was performed during a five-year period (1991 -1995), covering deaths from injuries, including suicide, homicide and accidents in Maputo, Mozambique. Setting Department of Forensic Medicine at the Maputo Central Hospital, Mozambique.Population The pregnant or recently pregnant (post-abortion and postpartum) population of Maputo city, the national capital of Mozambique. Twenty-seven cases of pregnancy-related deaths caused by injuries were identified. Main outcome measures Proportion of deaths due to homicide, suicide, and accidents in pregnant women or within 42 days after termination of pregnancy. Results Ten cases were due to alleged homicide, nine to alleged suicide and six to alleged accident. Fifty-nine percent (16/27) of women suffering an injury-related maternal death were younger than 25 years of age. Eighty-five percent of pregnancies were less than 28 weeks of gestational age. The magnitude of the problem of violence-related maternal deaths compares with the magnitude of pregnancy-induced hypertension as the fourth cause of maternal death at Maputo Central Hospital. Conclusion The contribution of violence-related deaths to maternal mortality is significant and must not be neglected.

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Maternal mortality in rural and urban Zimbabwe: Social and reproductive factors in an incident case-referent study

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