Risk factors of fetal mortality and relationship with health aspect in the City of Mosul

Abstract

Background: Most of the research studies the causes of death related to live births, but the concept of fetal mortality is used very few and in a number of Linguistic and scientific sources, including the term “fetal death” refer to the death of an off spring A pregnancy before it is separated from its mother and another term for fetal death by miscarriage or uterine deaths. Methodology: descriptive study cross-sectional design. To reach the goal of the research, a number of important steps must be taken through which to achieve the goals. I designed a questionnaire containing 5 main axes that targeted women of reproductive age between 14-46 years and the number of participating women was (200) hospitals, health centers and specialized clinics. Results: The results showed causes of mortality and risk factors by calculating the average weighted average for each axis. Most of the reasons are health reasons with an average of (2.2), followed by economic and social reasons with an average of (2.1), and then psychological and cultural (1.9), when that the total arithmetic mean is (2), so that 73% of the participating women were exposed to fetal death, they are the age group between 35-46.