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November 2005, Vol 95, No. 11 | American Journal of Public Health 1879
© 2005 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.072017

LETTER

UNDERREPORTING OF PREGNANCY-ASSOCIATED DEATHS

Isabelle L. Horon, DrPH and Diana Cheng, MD

The authors are with the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Isabelle Horon, DrPH, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Vital Statistics Administration, 201 W Preston St, Baltimore, MD 21201 (e-mail: horoni@dhmh.state.md.us).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

In the March issue of the Journal, Chang et al. call attention to the finding that homicide is a leading cause of death among pregnant and postpartum women.1 However, their findings substantially underestimate the magnitude of the problem, because data on pregnancy-associated deaths collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Reproductive Health (DRH) through the Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System are incomplete.

To collect data for the Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System, the DRH asks states to voluntarily send death certificates for all maternal deaths, that is, deaths resulting from medical causes related to the pregnancy that occur . . . [Full Text]






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