Open AccessSocial-hygienic factors in maternal mortality
Author(s) -
М. А. Репина,
Marianna M. Safronova,
Y. А. Kornilova
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
žurnalʺ akušerstva i ženskihʺ boleznej
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1684-0461
pISSN - 1683-9366
DOI - 10.17816/jowd88789
Subject(s) - medicine , demography , population , pregnancy , environmental health , genetics , sociology , biology
In this article, medico-social factors of maternal mortality in St. Petersburg are presented. St. Petersburg is a city pertaining to the middle group of regions according to index on 1 living bom infants. This material analysis affirms the high extra genital morbidity, infectious severity, specifically, high frequency of IPPP germ-carrying and unfortunate social factors: pregnancy without marriage, belonging to socially unhappy population layers, narcomania, alcoholism, refusal of medical observation and help.