Open AccessA review of reproductive risk and its usefulness in public health
Author(s) -
Sandra Angelica Jiménez Oropeza,
Jesús Carlos Ruvalcaba Ledezma
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
mexican journal of medical research icsa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2007-5235
DOI - 10.29057/mjmr.v4i8.1856
Subject(s) - reproductive health , risk assessment , livelihood , medicine , public health , environmental health , nursing , population , geography , agriculture , computer science , computer security , archaeology
Reproductive risk manages to be conceptualized by the interaction between the definition of risk and risk factors during reproductive life of women having as a result fatal maternal death and / or death of the fetus or newborn. Therefore, to achieve adequate reproductive health is essential that health personnel manage the risk approach, as not all women have the same chance of getting sick and dying; whose livelihood is the proper understanding of the definition of reproductive risk and their classification (preconception risk, risk obstetrics and perinatal risk) to identify individual needs at every stage of reproductive life in a way so that they are benefiting women and their families