Maternal morbidity Background

Maternal mortality is a key heath care indicator related to a country’s level of development. Adolescent girls are most vulnerable to social maladjustment. This may be the cause or result of unexpected pregnancies, which increase the occurrence of unsafe abortions, the discontinuation of formal education and are associated with lower adherence to prenatal care [1]. In a similar fashion, although for dis-tinct reasons, older pregnant women are also considered at high risk of obstetric complication due to a higher prevalence of associated morbid conditions and/or mul-tiparity [2,3]. The study of maternal death (MD) is fraught with diffi-culties and therefore, in the past years, women who sur-vive severe conditions of pregnancy or near-miss (NM) complications have attracted great interest as a sourc