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Maternal Mortality: Evolving Trends
Author(s) -
Loh F.H.,
Arulkumaran S.,
Montan Sven,
Ratnam S.S.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
asia‐oceania journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1447-0756
pISSN - 0389-2328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1447-0756.1994.tb00474.x
Subject(s) - medicine , socioeconomic status , mortality rate , maternal mortality rate , pregnancy , demography , disease , pediatrics , environmental health , intensive care medicine , obstetrics , health services , surgery , population , sociology , biology , genetics
Despite improvement in socioeconomic standards, good and accessible health care facilities the maternal mortality rate in Singapore is not declining. The maternal mortality rate in National University Hospital, Singapore, over a 7 year period 1986–1992 was 22.9 per 100,000 when direct and indirect causes were considered (34.4 per 100,000 when incidental deaths were included). However closer scrutiny reveals that most deaths were not due to the traditional direct causes of haemorrhage, sepsis, embolism or hypertensive disease. Most were due to medical disorders which in their own right carries a high risk to life even without a pregnancy.