The percentile distribution of the female population in fertile age for medical assistance during childbirth, per residence area in 1997, was the following

The departments of this region have historically had the highest maternal mortality.

Preparation for childbirth

Mean birth interval (months)

Care during delivery

Coverage of childbirth

Prenatal or delivery

Prenatal and delivery NA

Childbirths in the units of primary, secondary and tertiary networks

Mothers still die in childbirth.

If the child is born prematurely, the whole period of leave not taken before delivery shall be added to the period of leave after delivery to make up the full 90 days.

Visits in the first month after childbirth

227. Since 1984, hospital births in the Argentine Republic have increased by 42.5 per cent and, in 1991, they accounted for nearly 96.2 per cent of all births.

Now, this looks like a chemical kind of birth.

18 weeks for each subsequent confinement

Table 12.10 PERCENTAGES OF BIRTHS BY PLACE OF DELIVERY, 1995

When women were asked why they preferred a home birth, 80.8 per cent stated that home was the best place to give birth.

Indicators 17 ( Proportion of births attended by skilled health ) and 32 ( Slums ) are not at all relevant in Finland.

According to Law 100, the subsidized scheme gives priority to the enrolment of pregnant women and of women in the delivery, postpartum and breastfeeding periods, community mothers, Community mothers are women employed in the community centres programme of the Columbian Family Welfare Institute, which makes arrangements for a mother from the neighbourhood to look after and feed local children.

Every day, a mother dies giving birth.

PHPN Programa de Humanização do Parto e Nascimento the Program for the Humanization of Labor and Birth

Pregnant women (care during risk free deliveries).

You can tell His Highness that labor has started.

Women of Turkish and Moroccan origin generally undergo childbirth at hospital, while home births are more common among ethnically Dutch women.

In rural areas, the assistance of traditional midwives in home births rises to 30.9 per cent.

If there have been complications during the pregnancy, during the birth or during the post natal period, as well as in the event of the birth of two or more children, the woman is granted an additional childbirth leave of fourteen calendar days, adding it to the childbirth leave and calculating a total of seventy calendar days.

Maternal mortality figures from the past few years show that the distribution by age has not varied, with the majority of deaths occurring between the ages of 20 and 34.

Prenatal and delivery medical care

Non hospital births 16.6 per cent.

One per thousand birth deliveries of women in the occupied Palestinian territory took place at Israeli checkpoints and 4.1 per cent of deliveries were at home.

Furthermore, the majority of maternal deaths in rural areas are related to the geographical inaccessibility of health care services.

The PHPN establishes the right of the woman in labor to have a companion or attendant present during labor and free visiting hours for her partner.

Over 99 of women of fertile age who gave birth in the year before the research had health care protection during labor provided by an expert.

At the present time, the obstetric practices in the Syrian Arab Republic recommend delivery in hospital or natural childbirth centres if the pregnancy is high risk.

Employers had to pay six months' wages (representing the three months prior to, and the three months following birth) as compensation for violations.

Approximately 12 per cent of births take place in private hospitals.

Caesarean sections accounted for 70 per cent of the latter.

With regard to the statement that for care during childbirth it is necessary to intensify the training of community workers and traditional midwives in correct childbirth care, it should be added that it is also necessary to increase the effectiveness of the systems and their capacity to cope with high risk pregnancies.

According to the data of the Federal Institute for Statistics, in FBiH, in 2001, the number of labor under expert supervision was 25.330 or 99,4 of all labors.

The following table shows the distribution of direct and indirect obstetric deaths.

The following table shows the primary causes of direct obstetric death in 2002

It was a difficult and long delivery.

The delivery was difficult and long.

Delivery Services most women are delivering in health facilities countrywide.

463. There is no data to break down the figures relating to maternity mortality into occurrence before or after childbirth.