Note Maternal Health in Statistics

Women who undergo labor or childbirth in developing countries mostly have to risk his life. The reason, many supported the delivery process performed without the help of a competent medical personnel.

Consider the mother's health statistics according to a global data collected from a variety of nonprofit organizations of the world and the World Health Organization (WHO):

1. Every 90 seconds a woman dies in pregnancy or childbirth.

2. Maternal mortality and birth reached 350,000 per year or more than 1,000 people per day.

3. About 99 percent of maternal deaths occur in developing countries.

4. One of the 11 mothers who died due to pregnancy or childbirth in Afghanistan.

5. United States ranks 50th in the number of maternal deaths, much higher than European countries, Asia and the Middle East.

6. One third of all births in the world do without professionals.

7. In 20,111 years, more than 50 million babies are born without the assistance of medical personnel.

8. When the number of midwives 350,000 people plus the maternal and infant mortality can be prevented from reaching the 3.6 million inhabitants.

9. 10 percent increase in the ability of health workers is equivalent to reducing maternal mortality to 5 percent.

10. About 80 percent of maternal deaths could be prevented with cheap, ie regular prenatal care, family planning (FP), delivery by medical personnel, and health care for a week after childbirth.

11. About 1 in 7 women in developing countries marry at age 15.

12. Girls younger than 15 years was five times greater risk of dying during childbirth.

13. Complications during pregnancy and childbirth a leading cause of death in young women aged 15-19 years. The figure reached 70,000 deaths each year.

14. Approximately 215 million women who do not want to increase the number of children have no access to family planning services.

15. Each year, modern contraceptives can prevent 188 million unintended pregnancies.

16. The use of contraception to help prevent 150,000 maternal deaths.

17. Needs of potential family planning acceptors will reduce maternal mortality to 32 percent.

18. Family planning also reduce infant mortality to 10 per cent.

19. Approximately 25 million women worldwide have received health information through the Internet and hundreds of thousands of mothers receiving such information via phone.

20. Although the delivery of health information has been advanced, but only 23 countries that reach the target successfully Developtment Millennium Goals (MDG's) number 5 of reducing maternal mortality to 75 percent in 2015.

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