Table of contents
- Foreword
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Summary
- Australia’s low maternal mortality rate Indigenous results are the great exception leading causes of maternal deaths
- The need for more information
- Section A: Introduction
- Background to the report
- AIHW National Advisory Committee on Maternal Mortality (NACMM)
- Aims of the report
- Methodology and structure of the report
- Compilation of the National Maternal Deaths database
- Section B: Epidemiology of maternal mortality
- Australian definitions and classifications of maternal deaths
- Scope of report
- Number of maternal deaths
- Measuring maternal mortality
- Determining the maternal mortality ratio
- Maternal Mortality Ratio
- Maternal mortality rate
- Age-specific and age-standardised maternal mortality rates
- Maternal deaths by state and territory of death
- Maternal deaths referred to the Coroner
- Direct maternal deaths
- Cause of direct maternal deaths
- Maternal age and parity
- Indirect maternal deaths
- Causes of indirect maternal deaths
- Maternal age
- Place of death
- Area of usual residence
- Location of death
- Time of death
- Early pregnancy deaths
- Maternal deaths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women
- Section C: Trends in maternal mortality in Australia
- Introduction
- Maternal mortality ratios 1982–2005
- Age-specific maternal mortality ratios 1982–2005
- Maternal deaths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women
- Leading causes of maternal deaths 1997–2005
- Direct deaths 1997–2005
- Indirect deaths 1997–2005
- Introduction
- Section D: Data development
- Appendixes
- Appendix 1: National Advisory Committee on Maternal Mortality (NACMM) and Committee Member Affiliations (2003–2005)
- NACMM Maternal Mortality Classification Subcommittee
- NACMM Education and Training Subcommittee
- Appendix 2: NACMM terms of reference
- Appendix 3: Membership of the state and territory Maternal Mortality Committees 2003–2005
- Appendix 4: National Maternal Deaths Reporting Form
- Appendix 1: National Advisory Committee on Maternal Mortality (NACMM) and Committee Member Affiliations (2003–2005)
- Glossary
- References
- List of tables
- List of figures