Maternal Mortality

Question 1

Maternal mortality

Answer 1

The death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days from TOP, 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

Question 2

Direct maternal deaths

Answer 2

Death resulting from obstetric complications of the pregnancy state (pregnancy, labour, and the puerperal morning), from interventions, omissions, incorrect treatment, or from a chain of events resulting from any of the above

Question 3

Indirect maternal deaths

Answer 3

Deaths resulting from previous existing disease or disease that developed during pregnancy and which was not due to direct obstetric causes but aggravated by physiological effects of pregnancy

Question 4

Maternal mortality ratio

Answer 4

Number of maternal deaths per 100000 live births