"maternal cause" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to something that is related to or brought about by a mother or motherhood. Example: The maternal cause of the child's behavioral issues could be traced back to his neglectful and emotionally distant mother.
According to the report, the risk that a 15-year-old girl will die during her lifetime from a maternal cause has increased by 50percentt in America, from one in 3,700 to one in 2,400 today.
For example, early detection and treatment of HIV in pregnant women was associated with AIDS, an indirect maternal cause of death.
In a study of 182 bitches of many different breeds that were brought to a veterinary hospital because of dystocia, Darvelid & Linde-Forsberg (1994)[ 1] found that 75.3% of the cases of dystocia had a maternal cause while 24.7% were of fetal origin.
If one of his patients were to die from maternal causes, he continued, it might happen from a major cardiac event that takes place months after he has stopped treating her.
A woman's lifetime risk of dying from maternal causes there is 1 in 6,000, according to Population Action International, which was assisted in its report by the relief agency CARE.
Another contributory factor is poverty as women whose partners are jobless are six times more likely to die from maternal causes than women whose partners are in work.
In Zambia, 1 in 27 women will die of maternal causes, yet the level of availability of EmOC is not known at the provincial level.
Evidence shows that the region has succeeded in decreasing premature death and disability from most communicable, newborn, nutritional, and maternal causes.
In sub-Saharan Africa, where 1 in 39 women risks dying from maternal causes in her lifetime; the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) was 500 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2010 (WHO, UNICEF et al. 2012).
In fact, according to WHO maternal causes rank number two among causes of mortality in 15-19 year old females globally*.
In the most recent federal report, the risk of death from maternal causes was 16 deaths per 100,000 live births.
