Analgesia during Labor and Vaginal Birth among Women with Severe Maternal Morbidity: Secondary Analysis from the WHO Multicountry Survey on Maternal and Newborn Health

Table 1

Global occurrence of Severe Maternal Morbidity (SMM) in women who delivered vaginally, the prevalence in different geographic regions of the world and prevalence ratio.

World Region	SMM	Non-SMM	PR (CI)
Asia (125,199)	5,314 (4.2)	119,885 (95.8)	1
Africa (59,155)	2,479 (4.2)	56,676 (95.8)	0.99 [0.83 – 1.19]
Latin America (36,597)	1,995 (5.5)	34,602 (94.5)	1.22 [0.90 – 1.65]
World (221,345)	9,788 (4.4)	211,557 (95.6)	-