Talk:Maternal death

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I've heard from multiple places that the number one cause of death among pregnant women is murder. I'm not sure how true this is though.

Here is a couple of links about it:
http://www.courttv.com/trials/peterson/090304_pregnantmurder_ctv.html
http://www.jrrobertssecurity.com/security-news/security-crime-news0043.htm
Homicide is a leading injury-related cause of death among pregnant and postpartum women, second only to motor-vehicle accidents, according to a review of death certificates for U.S. women.
-Shogun 01:23, 7 December 2006 (UTC)


Re the stats in this article:

  • please give figures
  • please give a date for when these figure applied
  • please give a cite for the source

-- The Anome 23:58, 31 Oct 2003 (UTC)

In ratios it says that Iceland has the lowest ratio with 10000 in 100,000 births... seems rather odd, especially as Austria is mentined directly afterwards with 4. Can someone correct this with real figures?

Does maternal death really usually follow "live birth"? Certainly there must be many cases where the fetus dies also. Preeclampsia, ectopic pregnancy, etc. Rmhermen 02:19, Dec 7, 2003 (UTC)

Should a Biblical entry be under "Known deaths"? A friend suggested moving it to "fiction" but that seems potentially offensive; still, calling it historical isn't quite right either.

What inspired me to start this article has to do with my former adventure at the Internet forum of the site Final Fantasy Worlds Apart. My account there was degraded when I posted a thread about maternal death, and they called it "tasteless." I left that board immediately after that. That inspired me to start this article. Decimus Tedius Regio Zanarukando 04:24, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Maternal deaths lists

All the listed maternal deaths have been moved to the relevant list and combined with the data already in the list. Ekem 15:15, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Other main cause of maternal death

One notable cause of maternal death is cardiac arrest, also known as heart failure. A major reason why obstetricians recommend a healthy diet with the right amount of daily calories. The major cause of cardiac-related maternal death is low weight gain and the heart has an overload, as it expands its' capacity to provide a larger blood supply to mother and baby/fetus. + 207.200.116.70 01:51, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

"The maternal mortality ratio is often referred to as the maternal mortality rate. This is actually a misnomer as it is in fact a ratio, and not a rate at all."

Is this sentence not complete nonsense? 203.217.66.98 13:32, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

The introduction of this article is the most confusing paragraph I've ever read. After reading it, I still do not know exactly what maternal death is. Will someone with knowledge of this subject create a one-sentence definition of maternal death, and then go into a slightly more detailed explanation of it? That seems to be a common way to get knowledge across clearly. Thoroughbred Phoenix 01:46, 20 April 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Merger proposal

There is a merger proposal on the books and I fail to see what the propositioner thought when making the proposal. Certainly, Maternal health and Maternal death are not the same, and both are subjects in their own right. Oppose merger.Ekem 15:51, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Oppose as well on the same grounds. After nearly seven months and no sign of any support (other than the initial tag), I'm going to remove the merge proposal tag. hateless 07:34, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ratio vs rate

I don't understand why there is the paragraph commenting that maternal death ratio is better than maternal death rate, when the reference to rate in Wikipedia shows that rate is a very good way to describe it. The units in the rate are maternal deaths and live births. Ratio includes all rates, but can also be unitless while rates cannot -- something that doesn't apply here.

Freelunch 00:07, 20 September 2007 (UTC)