About Maternal moality rate which of the following is true?: (A) It is rate, not ratio, (B) Numerator includes complications related deaths up to 42 days after pregnancy, (C) Denominator includes still bih and aboions, (D) Expressed as rate per 1000 live bihs
Answer is B. Maternal moality rate is the total no.of female deaths due to complications of pregnancy,childbih,or eithin 42 days of delivery from puerperal causes in an area during a given year divided by total no.of live bihs in the same area and year.REF.PARK'S TEXTBOOK OF PREVENTIVE AND SOCIAL MEDICINE.Editon-21.Page no.-514