Unfortunately, many have been dropped from the ballot, and their omissions are no less glaring than the current statistical causes célèbre of Blyleven, Alan Trammell and Tim Raines.
The statistical causes of maternal mortality were also not reported by the local biomedical staff as urgent gynecological health concerns.
Informants in our study did not report the top statistical causes of maternal morbidity and mortality as their most urgent gynecological health concerns.
In Africa specifically, the major statistical causes of maternal mortality are hemorrhage (34%), sepsis/infections (10%), and hypertensive disorders (9%) [ 3, 4].
We posed the following questions: (1) Among all plants used for women's health, how many are used to treat the statistical causes of maternal morbidity and mortality?
The objective of our research was to examine how closely Beninese and Gabonese women's health perspectives, medicinal plant knowledge, and plant use practices reflect the statistical causes of maternal mortality.
They consisted of (1) health issue free-listing exercises and (2) open-ended questions inquiring about herbal remedies (plant, use, preparation, and administration) used for statistical causes of maternal mortality and locally-determined health concerns.
The aim of this paper was to examine how closely African women's health perceptions, plant knowledge, and plant use practices parallel the statistical causes of maternal mortality prioritized by national governments and international organizations.
Plant use practices in both countries did not closely parallel the top statistical causes of maternal mortality, but highlighted key issues such as menstruation and infertility as salient health concerns for women.
The statistical causes of maternal health were not strongly reflected in the free-listing activity, with the exception of infections, which may not be directly correlated with the biomedical definition of sepsis.
Plants and women's knowledge contribute to the local population's management of the top statistical causes of maternal mortality, but other health conditions such as menstruation and infertility were more salient health concerns.
