title: [Women's health and development].
abstract: Compared to industrialized countries, the maternal mortality rate is 100 times higher in resource-poor countries, where every minute a woman dies because she is pregnant. Most of these deaths are due to hemorrhage during home delivery. This high fatality rate results mainly from a lack of obstetric professionals, remoteness, and poverty all of which hinder timely access to emergency obstetric care. Four factors can help to reduce maternal mortality: a higher standard of living, better education of girls, a lower fertility rate, and better access to obstetric professionals.
authors: L'Académie nationale de médecine Gynécologie-obstétrique, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, 184 rue du faubourg Saint-Antoine, 75571 Paris cedex. j.milliez@sat.aphp.fr
authors: Jacques
authors: J
authors: Milliez
mesh_terms: D003906:Developing Countries; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016387:Women's Health