Correlation between Human Development Index and maternal mortality rate

Autor: saeed Asefzadeh, Mehran Alijanzadeh, Marjan Nasiri asl
Jazyk: perština
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Payesh, Vol 12, Iss 6, Pp 559-566 (2013)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1680-7626
2008-4536
Popis: Objective (s): Human development is about the realization of human potentials. The aim of this study was to understand the relation of human development index and its subsets on maternal mortality.Methods: This was a descriptive analysis of information derived from Human Development database and the World Health Organization data from 1990 to 2010 for 135 countries.Results: The average maternal mortality rate in 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, and 2010 for the Asia, Europe, Africa, America and the Pacific were 202, 23, 637, 134 and 12 (in 100000live births), respectively. The highest human development index was reported for Oceania with the value of 0.882 and the lowest reported for Africa with the value of 0.430. From 1990 to 2008 the average maternal mortality rate has fallen 2.1 percent annually.Correlation between maternal mortality and the human development index were -0.879. The maternal mortality rates were correlated with life expectancy, per capita income and education -0.886, -0.515 and - 0.827. (P value
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