Predictive Factors of Home-Related Injuries among Patients Admitted to the Emergency Departments

[摘要] Introduction Maternal mortality has been a major global health challenge that is very common in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The world health organization defined maternal mortality as the death of a woman during pregnancy, during childbirth, or within 42 days after birth. Maternal mortality usually occurs in women due to complications during pregnancy and childbirth. The majority of the complications that occurred during pregnancy can be avoidable or curable. Complications in women before pregnancy sometimes get worse during pregnancy, when not treated. The major complications that usually lead to maternal death include bleeding (usually after childbirth), infections (particularly after childbirth), high blood pressure, complications from or during child delivery, and unsafe abortion.[345678] In 2013, an estimated 289,000 maternal deaths occurred worldwide, and the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in developing countries was 14 times greater than in advanced countries.[9] According to the WHO report, about 810 women died daily of preventable pregnancy and childbirth-related causes worldwide though there was a significant decrease in MMR of about 38% per 100,000 live births between 2000 and 2017. The report further revealed that 98% of the maternal deaths happened in low- and lower-middle-income countries with an estimated 295,000 deaths during pregnancy and childbirth in 2017 alone. Eighty six percent of maternal deaths in 2017 occurred in sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia with about 196,000 maternal deaths in sub-Saharan Africa alone; this value represents about two-thirds of the entire global maternal deaths in 2017. The 2019 UNICEF[10] report puts Nigeria as the 4th country with the highest MMR of 917 (500–999) per 100,000 live births behind South Sudan (1150), Chad (1140), and Sierra Leone (1120) per 100,000 live births.

[学科分类] 内科医学