Live birth

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
METEOR identifier:	733187
Registration status:	Health, Standard 03/12/2020 Indigenous, Standard 14/07/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 24/12/2021
Definition:	A live birth is defined by the World Health Organization to be the complete expulsion or extraction from the mother of a baby, irrespective of the duration of the pregnancy, which, after such separation, breathes or shows any other evidence of life, such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of the voluntary muscles, whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut or the placenta is attached. Each product of such a birth is considered live born.
Context:	Perinatal

Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	National Perinatal Data Development Committee National Perinatal Data Advisory Committee.
Origin:	National Health Data Committee
Reference documents:	World Health Organization 2004. International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision (ICD-10), 2nd edn. Geneva: World Health Organization.
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Supersedes Live birth ACT Health (retired), Candidate 09/08/2018 Health, Superseded 03/12/2020 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Incomplete 17/10/2012 Indigenous, Superseded 14/07/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 20/12/2016 See also Stillbirth (fetal death) Health, Standard 03/12/2020 Indigenous, Standard 14/07/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 24/12/2021
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