This section deals with medical matters in relation to pregnancy and why abortion is not necessary to help a woman through a difficult pregnancy.
Dr. Berry Kiely, paediatrician, discusses the proper medical perspective in dealing with the two patients in a pregnancy and achieving the best possible outcome for both.
A 2014 Study has revealed differences of up to 100% of maternal deaths among global reports and official figures from a number of countries of the American continent. Considering the women’s education level may significantly improve the estimates.
The 5th Millennium Development Goal proposed by the United Nations (UN) is aimed to decrease maternal mortality by 75% before 2015. One year away from the deadline to achieve this goal, several global reports monitoring progress in maternal health in UN member countries have been published.
Most reports use mathematical models to estimate maternal mortality for each country, which is an indicator used for direct comparison to evaluate progress in maternal health. A new study by researchers at the MELISA Institute compared maternal mortality values ​informed in three global reports with figures obtained from official data from eight countries with reliable vital statistics in the Americas, including the United States, Mexico and Chile.
The research, published in the British journal Public Health, reveals that two recent global reports show discrepancies between 14% and 100% when compared with official maternal mortality figures from the countries evaluated. In contrast, a third independent report, conducted by researchers from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington, published in The Lancet was considerably more accurate. According to this new study by Koch et al., considering the women’s education level may significantly increase the accuracy of the estimates. In fact, the utilization of this variable in the global report by the IHME apparently increased the accuracy of maternal death estimates.