Methodology

Goal: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Target: By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births

Indicator: Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel

Concepts or definitions: Percentage of births attended by skilled health personnel (generally doctors, nurses or midwives) is the percentage of deliveries attended by health personnel trained in providing lifesaving obstetric care, including giving the necessary supervision, care and advice to women during pregnancy, labor and the post-partum period, conducting deliveries on their own, and caring for newborns. Traditional birth attendants, even if they receive a short training course, are not included.

Formula: The number of women aged 15-49 with a live birth attended by a skilled health personnel (doctors, nurses or midwives) during delivery divided by the total of women aged 15-49 with a live birth in the same period, multiplied by a hundred.

Measure Unit: Percentage

Reach: National

Initial period of historical sequence: 2016

Last period of historical sequence: 2017

Institution: Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics

Contact: Ana Jara Castro, Statistical Projects Manager

Source: Birth Records 2016-2017. Puerto Rico Vital Statistis Record Office, Health Department.

References: SDG Indicators: Metadata repository