Table 11 Maternal mortality, by obstetric cause, 2002

Table 12 Maternal mortality, by primary cause of death, 2002

In fact, that is the leading cause of under five mortality.

Diarrhoea is now a major cause of child mortality, and perinatal mortality in women has increased as a result of malnutrition and the collapse of health care.

437. Tumoral diseases are the second major cause of mortality and morbidity of men and women.

Acute respiratory infections (ARI) continue to constitute a major cause of morbidity and mortality among children under five.

The Committee observes that the very high mortality rate in such institutions is a cause for serious alarm.

Mortality Mortality

According to another nationwide study done in 1985, abortion was the second most frequent cause of maternal mortality (22 per cent).

The leading cause of death (mortality) in 2002 was diseases of the circulatory system, with 53.1 per cent of the death rate.

A delegation said that malaria was a major cause of mortality in several developing countries, and more needed to be done by UNICEF.

Currently, further concrete measures are being taken to address the gaps among regions of the country, as well as to further reduce malnutrition and injury related child mortality, the latter being the greatest cause of child mortality today.

Reducing mortality, especially maternal and child mortality

Infant mortality rate and maternal mortality rate

mortality.

That cause of death patterns vary between low mortality Asian countries, including Japan, and the West is well known. Mortality from cerebrovascular diseases, particularly from haemorrhagic stroke, is, for example, far more common in Asian countries than in the West, while ischaemic heart disease plays a more important role in cardiovascular disease mortality in Western than in Asian countries.

The burden of malaria, the number one cause of mortality, has been reduced through innovative and vigorous health service delivery programmes such as Roll Back Malaria.

Infant Mortality

MATERNAL MORTALITY

INFANT MORTALITY

Infant mortality (per 1,000 live births) Percentage change in infant mortality

(b) A very high mortality rate of 25 per 1,000 for general mortality and 200 per 1,000 for child mortality

21. In recent years, her Government had increased its efforts to eradicate childhood diseases through specific national maternal and child health programmes. As a result, by 1994, under five mortality had fallen to 38 per thousand, and infant mortality to 32 per thousand.

The State Ministry for Women Empowerment has a policy to reduce the maternal mortality rate in Indonesia through a specific initiative called the Mother Friendly Movement.

Infant mortality was 90 per 1,000, and child mortality, 131 per 1,000.

High mortality of men in all age groups and significant infant mortality

It's infant mortality.

neonatal mortality rate

Maternal mortality ratio

J. Child mortality

Maternity mortality rate

Infant mortality Marriages

6. Infant mortality

Child Mortality Database.

Our performance in infant mortality and maternal mortality has not been so good.

Infant mortality for 1970 1975 and 1990 1995, percentage change in infant mortality between those periods, and under five mortality, 1990 1995, by major area or region ranked according to level of mortality

434. For many years they have been the dominating cause of morbidity and mortality, and are the main cause of death (52.1 per cent of all deaths in 1993, of which, 47.8 per cent among men and 57.0 per cent among women).

As regards maternal mortality in Mexico, the fourth cause of death is complications arising from abortion this category includes not only induced abortions but all types, including spontaneous abortions.

1. Infant mortality for 1970 1975 and 1990 1995, percentage change in infant mortality between those periods, and under five mortality, 1990 1995, by major area or region ranked according to level of mortality

The problem of high mortality and over mortality in specific areas of the country, related to circulatory system diseases, tumoral diseases, injuries and poisoning, require immediate action to be taken with the aim of reducing to a minimum the risks to health resulting from those diseases.

Breast cancer is the second most common cause of death among women in Nicaragua, with a 23 per cent mortality rate among cases admitted to hospitals between 1992 and 1999.

According to certain studies carried out in marginalized areas of Lima, septic abortion was the primary cause of maternal mortality in 1986 and 1988 (Ministry of Health, 1986 and 1988).

As stated in the section on the mortality rate, violence is the leading cause of death for women aged 15 to 44 and for the whole of the male population.

Remarkable impact on mortality.

Reducing mortality in childhood