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1 Introduction to maternal and perinatal mortality

Objectives

When you have completed this unit you should be able to:

  • Explain the importance of mortality rates.
  • Describe the concept of a mortality audit.
  • List the important steps of a mortality audit.
  • Keep a detailed birth register.
  • Describe information which can be obtained from a birth register.
  • Understand the importance of the low birth weight rate.
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1-1 What is mortality?
1-2 What is a mortality rate?
1-3 How is mortality rate expressed?
1-4 How can mortality rate be applied to groups of people?
1-5 What is the annual mortality rate?
1-6 Should the mortality rate be calculated for a special area?
1-7 Is the mortality rate the same for all health districts?
1-8 Do mortality rates remain the same?
1-9 Why is it often better to know the mortality rate rather than the number of people who die?
1-10 Why would one want to know the mortality rate?
1-11 Why would you want to compare the mortality rates between two areas?
1-12 Why would you want to compare mortality rates at different times?
1-13 Which mortality rates are usually recorded in a maternity service?
1-14 Why is it important to know why mothers and infants die?
1-15 What are primary causes of death?
1-16 What are final causes of death?
1-17 What is the value of knowing both the primary and final causes of death?
1-18 What is an audit?
1-19 What is a mortality audit?
1-20 Why are mortality audits important?
1-21 What are the important steps of a mortality audit?
1-22 How can it be determined why a patient has died?
1-23 What is a mortality meeting?
1-24 What is a mortality report?
1-25 Why is the mortality report so important?
1-26 What is morbidity?
1-27 Why is it important to document morbidity?
1-28 Who is responsible for collecting and analysing mortality information?
1-29 What is a confidential enquiry?
1-30 What is a birth register?
1-31 What information should be recorded in the birth register?
1-32 What useful information can be calculated from information in a birth register?
1-33 What is a minimal data set?
1-34 What is the value of knowing the number of young and older mothers?
1-35 Why measure the rate of women attending antenatal care?
1-36 Why is the number of women who are screened for syphilis important?
1-37 Why is the HIV rate determined?
1-38 What is the use of documenting the caesarean section rate?
1-39 Why is it important to document whether the mother has been referred?
1-40 What is the use of knowing the rate of asphyxiated infants?
1-41 How may infants be divided into groups by their birth weight?
1-42 What is a low birth weight infant?
1-43 Why is it important to identify all low birth weight infants?
1-44 What is the low birth weight rate?
1-45 What is the importance of the low birth weight rate?
1-46 What is the low birth weight rate in South Africa?
1-47 How does the low birth weight rate influence the perinatal mortality rate?
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