Table 11 Maternal mortality, by obstetric cause, 2002

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

It was the single most common cause of maternal mortality, accounting for about half of all deaths related to childbirth, and was second only to tuberculosis in killing women of childbearing age.

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

The infant, under five and maternal mortality rates are all worsening.

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.

If true, drug induced death would qualify as the fourth or fifth leading cause of death (depending on which mortality estimates are used).

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

Reducing mortality, especially maternal and child mortality

Fifty per cent reduction in child mortality. Nearly all the indicators of child mortality have decreased by approximately 50 per cent from their 1987 level.

Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Peru, and Botswana all halved neonatal mortality during the 1990s.

Infant mortality

Infant Mortality

Diabetes is the leading known cause of neuropathy in developed countries, and neuropathy is the most common complication and greatest source of morbidity and mortality in diabetes patients.

Pneumonia, a major ARI, is the number one cause of mortality among children under five years old, taking the life of an estimated 1.8 million children per year.

Neonatal mortality and postneonatal mortality (covering the remaining 11 months of the first year of life) are reflected in the Infant Mortality Rate.

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

Maternal mortality rate

Infant Mortality Rates

neonatal mortality rate

Maternal mortality ratio

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.

In recent years, despite the country's difficult situation and thanks to the ninth five year (1997 2002) development plan, child mortality, mortality of children under five and maternal mortality had decreased, the girls' primary school enrolment rate had increased and more than 90 percent of all children were vaccinated.

Structure of maternal mortality

Reducing mortality in childhood

However, the Committee is very concerned that despite decreases in the infant mortality rate, under five mortality rate and maternal mortality rate, these rates remain very high.

Against all odds, mortality rates are now one third of what they were in the beginning of 2004.

Together, these cause about 75 of all adult cases.

Maternal mortality and the mortality of parents due to HIV AIDS often lead to or exacerbate poverty.

All these factors contribute to high levels of fertility, morbidity and mortality, as well as to low economic productivity.

Goal 4 Reduce child mortality

1.2.2 Fertility, Reproduction and Mortality

Reduce child mortality (MDG 4)

Infant mortality rates remain high.

Take child mortality the aim here is to reduce child mortality by two thirds, from 1990 to 2015.

All withdrawals from the Treaty were a cause for concern.

Mortality 300,000 people dying each year.

Most frequent mortality causes and rates

Educated women have decreased maternal mortality

Education leads to decreased infant mortality

Mortality Rates and Causes of Death

Nonetheless, the mortality rates remain high.

Maternal mortality in Pakistan remains high.

Strategic maternal mortality reduction plan 2004 2008, which is based on the 2003 strategic guidelines for reducing maternal mortality and the recommendations of the 2000 maternal mortality baseline of the national reproductive health programme.

The WHO also states that malnutrition is by far the biggest contributor to child mortality, present in half of all cases.