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The WHO Application of ICD-10 to deaths during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium: ICD-MM
Health Systems
Sexual and Reproductive Health
Description
Reducing maternal mortality by 75% is the Millennium Development Goal 5a. To reach this goal, countries need an accurate picture of the causes and levels of maternal deaths. However, efforts to document the progress in decreasing maternal mortality must make adjustments for inconsistencies in country-reported maternal mortality. Completeness of maternal death reporting and accuracy of statements of causes of death need to be improved and may compromise the output resulting from subsequent standardized coding and classification according to the rules of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD).