Table of contents
- Preliminary material
- Title and verso pages
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Symbols
- Summary
- Maternal mortality rates remained low for Australian women
- Maternal mortality rates were higher for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women
- Key causes of direct and indirect maternal deaths in Australia in 2006-2010
- Body section
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Background to the report
- 1.2 Purpose of this report
- 1.3 Aims of this report
- 2 Definitions, classifications and methods
- 2.1 Definitions and classifications
- 2.2 Measuring maternal mortality
- 3 Maternal deaths in Australia 2006-2010
- 3.1 Maternal mortality ratio
- 3.2 State and territory maternal mortality ratio
- 4 Direct and indirect maternal deaths
- 4.1 Cardiac disease
- 4.2 Non-obstetric haemorrhage
- 4.3 Amniotic fluid embolism
- 4.4 Thromboembolism
- 4.5 Obstetric haemorrhage
- 4.6 Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
- 4.7 Sepsis
- 4.8 Influenza in pregnancy
- 4.9 Early pregnancy deaths
- 4.10 Deaths due to other causes
- 5 Deaths related to psychosocial morbidity
- 5.1 Severe psychosocial maternal morbidity
- 6 Incidental deaths
- 6.1 Accidental injury and motor vehicle accident
- 7 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women
- 7.1 Indigenous women who died between 2006 and 2010
- 8 Coronial review
- 8.1 The role of the coroner
- 9 Quality of maternal death reviews in Australia
- 9.1 Sources of maternal death notification
- 1 Introduction
- End matter
- Appendixes
- Appendix A National Maternal Mortality Advisory Committee membership
- Appendix B National Maternal Mortality Advisory Committee-Report Working Group membership
- Appendix C National Maternal Mortality Advisory Committee-Clinical Classifications Working Group membership
- Appendix D Data quality statement National Maternal Death Report Data Set for 2006-2010
- Appendix E National Aboriginal Perinatal Reference Group membership
- Glossary
- References
- Related publications
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Appendixes