title: Determinants for high maternal mortality in multiethnic populations in western China.
abstract: Our purpose of this study was to investigate determinants and patterns of associations with high maternal mortality in poor and multiethnic populations from the Xinjiang Uigur autonomous region of Western China. The researcher found that the maternal mortality ratio of Xinjiang was very high; almost half of the participants delivered at home without clean delivery, and nearly one-fifth of the participants had not received any medical treatment. Eighty-seven percent of maternal deaths were among ethnic minority groups. In multiethnic areas in Xinjiang, social-culture factors, lack of health resources, and low health services utilization were related to high maternal mortality.
authors.affiliation: National Center for Women and Children's Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China. duqing1998@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Qing
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Du
authors.forename: Oyvind
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Nass
authors.forename: Per
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bergsjo
authors.forename: Bernadette Nirmal
authors.initials: BN
authors.lastname: Kumar
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008427:Maternal Health Services; D008428:Maternal Mortality; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011203:Poverty; D011247:Pregnancy; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D055815:Young Adult