Maternal Mortality : A Global Factbook

A work which sets out the facts and figures needed to understand why so many women continue to die as a result of pregnancy and childbirth despite the fact that the technical means to prevent such deaths have long been available. Drawing upon a data base of some 3000 reports and studies, the factbook shows, in the form of country profiles, where women are dying, what they are dying of and what other aspects of their lives contribute to their deaths.