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FactCheck: Is suicide one of the leading causes of maternal death in Australia?

  • Written by David Ellwood, Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Griffith University
imageSuicide is uncommon during pregnancy -- it occurs more frequently when a pregnancy is over.Mikel Garcia Idiakez/flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

The Committee notes that … suicide has become one of the leading causes of maternal death in Australia. – The Obstetrics Clinical Committee, report to the Medicare Benefits Schedule Review, August 2016.

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