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MATERNAL FIGURE 2
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MORTALITY

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girls will have challenges. This dad will have
to pull the burden alone. There is gaping
emptiness, and yet there is so much abun-
dance. Let us begin filling.
The Public Health Action Committee of
the Faith Based Initiative of the City of San
Antonio hopes to work on community-wide
initiatives through the faith organization in a
community to focus on nurturing women be-
fore, during and after pregnancy.

FIGURE 3
Rajam Ramamurthy, MD, Profes-
sor Emeritus, Department of Pedi-
atrics. UT Health. San Antonio.
Leader, Public Health Action Com-
mittee of the Faith Based Initiative of the City of
San Antonio.

Suggested Reading:

• United Nations, Department of Eco-
nomic and Social Affairs - Population Di-
vision - World Population Prospects, the
2015 Revision

• https://www.npr.org/2017/05/12/5280
98789/u-s-has-the-worst-rate-of-mater-
nal-deaths-in-the-developed-world

• Obstet Gynecol. 2016 Sep;128(3):447-55

TABLE 2

****Maternal Deaths are reported as the
number of deaths due to pregnancy, child-
birth, the puerperium up to six weeks
post-delivery, and any obstetric cause from
42 days to a year post-delivery and its se-
quelae (ICD-10 codes O00-O99).

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