Reproductive Mortality in Massachusetts in 1981

Abstract

REPRODUCTIVE MORTALITY IN MASSACHUSETTS IN 1981B. P. Sachs, M.B., B.S., D.P.H., T. Masterson, B.A., J. F. Jewett, M.D., and B. Guyer, M.D., M.P.H.Maternal mortality has declined in the United States by 50 per cent during the past decade.1 The decline has coincided with an increase in the use of contraception, sterilization, and legal abortion. A survey reported by the National Center for Health Statistics showed that 22 per cent of women 15 to 44 years old use oral contraceptives.2 To examine the consequence of these changes, Beral proposed the use of the reproductive mortality rate as a measure . . .