Maternal mortality in Colombia during the COVID-19 pandemic: time series and social inequities.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic goes beyond morbidity and mortality from that disease. Increases in maternal mortality have also been described but have not been extensively studied to date. This study aimed to examine changes in maternal mortality and identify correlates and predictors of excess maternal mortality in Colombia during the pandemic.

Setting

Analysis of data from the national epidemiological surveillance databases of Colombia (Sivigila).

Participants

Deaths among 6342 Colombian pregnant women who experienced complications associated with pregnancy, childbirth or the perperium during 2008-2020 were included in this study. For inequalities analysis, a subsample of 1055 women from this group who died in 2019 or 2020 years were analysed.

Met

SUBMITTER: Castaneda-Orjuela C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10083746 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature