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Generally, there is a distinction between a direct maternal death that is the result of a complication of the pregnancy, delivery, or management of the two, and an indirect maternal death that is a pregnancy-related death in a woman with a pre-existing or newly developed health problem unrelated to pregnancy.
For every woman who dies, there are about 20 to 30 women who experience injury, infection, or other birth or pregnancy related complication. [ 6 ] UNFPA estimated that 303,000 women died of pregnancy or childbirth related causes in 2015.
Women who died during, as result of childbirth or from pregnancy complications (e.g. eclampsia or puerperal fever. Pages in category "Deaths in childbirth" The ...
Among Hispanic women, the rate of women dying while pregnant, during childbirth or soon after increased from 14.5 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2019 to 18.9 in 2022.
The family of Amber Thurman, the 28-year-old Georgia woman who died in 2022 after “preventable” delays in abortion care under the state’s restrictive law, plans to bring a medical ...
Medics have been told to be on alert for blood clots among pregnant women and new mothers amid concern over a 20-year high in maternal deaths. Some 275 women in the UK died during pregnancy or in ...
In response to the MacDorman study, revealing the "inability, or unwillingness, of states and the federal government to track maternal deaths", [16] ProPublica and NPR found that in 2016 alone, between 700 and 900 women died from pregnancy- and childbirth-related causes. In "Lost Mothers" they published stories of some of women who died ...
Amber Nicole Thurman (September 16, 1993 – August 19, 2022) was a 28-year-old medical assistant who died of septic shock and retained products of conception following a medication abortion. Georgia 's maternal mortality committee determined that Thurman's death was preventable and noted that the voluntary delay in performing the dilation and ...