Yesterday, the results of the 2005 Hospital Morbidity Survey conducted by the National Statistics Institute (INE) were published, resulting in The main causes of hospitalization are complications arising from pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium and circulatory system problems.
According to the study, hospital admissions for complications of pregnancy, childbirth or postpartum have an upward trend, in 2004 they were as many as for circulatory system diseases, but in 2005 it has exceeded them.
Something will have to do with the fact that birth rate has also increased in recent years, so the more pregnancies and births there are, the greater the likelihood of complications. It must be said that these data are collected from hospital discharges, so all women have spent a minimum of one night hospitalized, if only for observation, and overcoming complications thanks to the work of health specialists. By communities, the highest incidence of this income was in Andalusia, the Canary Islands, Castilla-La Mancha, Valencian Community, Madrid, Murcia, Ceuta and Melilla, communities with a high percentage of population under 45 years.
These data are the result of the study conducted in 85% of Spanish hospitals, both public and private, you can read the full report on the INE website.
