Open AccessHow to Grae with Risk Factors for Perinatal Mortality
Author(s) -
Bergsjø Per
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
acta obstetricia et gynecologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.401
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1600-0412
pISSN - 0001-6349
DOI - 10.3109/00016348909006137
Subject(s) - medicine , counterattack , risk factor , identification (biology) , pregnancy , outcome (game theory) , medical emergency , pediatrics , botany , genetics , mathematics , mathematical economics , political science , law , biology
A risk factor is any ascertainable characteristic or circumstance of a person or group of persons that is known to be associated with an abnormal risk of having, developing, or being especially adversely affected by a morbid process (1). Risk factors may be causally or indirectly connected with the unwanted outcome, but any strategy for a counterattack must start with the identification and ranking of such factors. For perinatal death the analysis must consider the child itself, its mother, circumstances around the pregnancy and birth, and more remotely but increasingly important, social and economic conditions.