Non-Life Threatening Maternal Morbidity: Cross Sectional Surveys from Malawi and Pakistan.

ABSTRACT:

Background

For more accurate estimation of the global burden of pregnancy associated disease, clarity is needed on definition and assessment of non-severe maternal morbidity. Our study aimed to define maternal morbidity with clear criteria for identification at primary care level and estimate the distribution of and evaluate associations between physical (infective and non-infective) and psychological morbidities in two different low-income countries.

Methods

Cross sectional study with assessment of morbidity in early pregnancy (34%), late pregnancy (35%) and the postnatal period (31%) among 3459 women from two rural communities in Pakistan (1727) and Malawi (1732). Trained health care providers at primary care level used semi-structured questionnaires documenting signs and

SUBMITTER: Zafar S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4577127 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature