Four deaths were attributed to the lack of medical treatment in prison in 2013.

Most maternal deaths are directly due to obstetric complications.

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

The Committee calls upon the Government to obtain information on the causes of maternal mortality, malnutrition and morbidity and the under five mortality rate of girls, and to develop programmes to address those problems.

The Committee is also concerned to learn that the fourth highest cause of death among women in Mexico is illegal abortion.

The national register of deaths maintained by the Ministry of Health indicates that the main cause of female deaths is cardiovascular disease, which accounts for over 55 per cent of all such deaths. According to those statistics, only 1.3 per cent of deaths are related to pregnancy and childbirth.

Infant Mortality

The fight against the causes of child mortality goes through a series of intersectoral actions in the areas of nutrition, education, sanitation, habitation and access to health services.

Population and hospital studies both indicate that the main causes of maternal deaths are post partum haemorrhage in over one third of cases (33 per cent), followed by pre eclampsia and birth difficulties.

IMR and the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) remain unchanged since 1997.

Infant Mortality Rates

Maternal mortality ratio

Maternal deaths

J. Child mortality

There were no deaths.

C. Maternal mortality

Our boys' deaths galvanize.

Paragraph 4 Infant mortality

B. Infant and child mortality

It's infant mortality.

The Syrian Arab Republic has achieved substantial progress in reducing both child and infant mortality rates.

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Maternal mortality has also been falling.

Maternal and child mortality rates had fallen.

We'll have fewer deaths.

Ten reasons, maybe fifteen. Also there's something in it for me.

The causes of poverty

They're all excellent reasons.

Lots of reasons.

Give me reasons.

For several reasons.

Over the last three years, mortality among men has been 1.1 to 1.2 times higher than mortality among women.

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

Indigenous deaths accounted for 9.3 per cent of the 75 deaths where indigenous status was known.

Goal 4 Reduce child mortality

Infant mortality rates remain high.

Maternal mortality rates vary widely.

Infant mortality 1,000 (est.)

The proportion of maternal deaths had not decreased yet.

10. Infant mortality rates, 1970 and 1990 . 53

We saw no other mass mortality events.

It was a cataclysmic event which had an enormous mortality toll.

Kenya had per child mortality of 128.

Owing to the unavailability of detailed data on the causes of maternal death and their medical and non medical determinants, the Ministry of Health, in conjunction with the concerned bodies, is conducting a national study on this subject that should provide an important basis of information.

UNICEF and WHO are currently pursuing an initiative to promote the integrated management of the sick child, which seeks to develop a uniform approach to the treatment of the most important causes of childhood mortality, including malaria and diarrhoeal diseases.