Risk factors of maternal death in Mexico.

Background: One of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals for 2015 is to reduce the maternal mortality ratio by three fourths. Ninety-nine percent of maternal deaths occur in developing countries, and the World Health Organization encourages investigations in these settings to determine the risk factors of maternal deaths. Our aim was to identify these risk factors in a hospital-based study in Mexico.

Postpartum contraceptive acceptance in León, Mexico: a multivariate analysis.

Objectives: The aim of the present study was to identify the reasons for the acceptance or rejection of contraceptive methods among postpartum women at the Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology in León, Mexico.

Methods: A prospective cross-sectional study of 1025 postpartum women was undertaken. Reasons for acceptance or refusal of contraceptives were registered in a written survey.

[Factors influencing contraceptive acceptance or refusal in puerperium].

Throughout a cross-section observational descriptive study, 1,010 postpartum patients were included. Data were collected directly with a survey, and women were divided into two groups: 507 (50.20%) women who accept postpartum contraceptive use and 503 (49.