Pregnancy-Associated Mortality

Maternal mortality is widely considered an indicator of overall population health and the status of women in the population. DOHMH uses multiple methods including death certificates, vital records linkage, medical examiner records, and hospital discharge data to identify all pregnancy-associated deaths (deaths that occur during pregnancy or within a year of the end of pregnancy) of New York state residents in NYC each year. DOHMH convenes the Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee (M3RC), a multidisciplinary and diverse group of 40 members that conducts an in-depth, expert review of each pregnancy-associated death of New York state residents occurring in NYC from both clinical and social determinants of health perspectives. The data in this table come from vital records and the M3RC review process. Data are not cross-classified on all variables: cause of death data are available by the relation to pregnancy (pregnancy-related, pregnancy-associated but not related, unable to determine), race/ethnicity and borough of residence data are each separately available for the total number of pregnancy-associated deaths and pregnancy-related deaths only.

母婴死亡率普遍被视为衡量总体人口健康水平及女性在人口中地位的重要指标。纽约市卫生和心理健康部（DOHMH）采用多种方法，包括死亡证明、生命统计资料关联、法医记录和医院出院数据，以识别每年纽约州居民在纽约市发生的所有与妊娠相关的死亡（包括妊娠期间或妊娠结束后一年内发生的死亡）。DOHMH组建了母婴死亡与发病率评审委员会（M3RC），该委员会由40名来自不同学科和领域的专家组成，从临床和社会健康决定因素的角度，对纽约州居民在纽约市发生的每一例与妊娠相关的死亡进行深入和专业的评审。本表中的数据来源于生命统计资料和M3RC评审流程。数据在所有变量上并未进行交叉分类：死亡原因数据根据与妊娠的关系（妊娠相关、妊娠相关但非直接相关、无法确定）提供，种族/民族和居住区域数据分别针对妊娠相关死亡总数和仅妊娠相关死亡提供。