Live birth
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Glossary Item |
|---|---|
| METeOR identifier: | 733187 |
| Registration status: | Health, Standard 03/12/2020 Indigenous, Endorsed 14/07/2021 |
| 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| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Live birth Health, Superseded 03/12/2020, Tasmanian Health, Endorsed 20/12/2016, Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Proposed 17/10/2012, Indigenous, Archived 14/07/2021, ACT Health, Final 09/08/2018 See also Stillbirth (fetal death) Health, Standard 03/12/2020, Indigenous, Endorsed 14/07/2021 |
| Metadata items which use this glossary item: | Birth status code N Health, Standard 03/12/2020 Birthweight Health, Standard 03/12/2020 Female—parity Health, Standard 03/12/2020 Female—parity, total pregnancies N[N] Health, Standard 03/12/2020 Indigenous-specific primary health care NBEDS December 2020 Indigenous, Endorsed 14/07/2021 Perinatal NBEDS 2021–22 Health, Standard 03/12/2020 Perinatal NMDS 2021–22 Health, Standard 03/12/2020 Pregnancy—birth plurality, code N Health, Standard 03/12/2020 Product of birth Health, Standard 03/12/2020 Product of birth—birthweight Health, Standard 03/12/2020 Product of birth—birthweight, code N Indigenous, Endorsed 14/07/2021 Product of birth—birthweight, total grams N[NNN] Health, Standard 03/12/2020 Product of birth—head circumference, total centimetres NN[N].N Health, Standard 03/12/2020 Stillbirth (fetal death) Health, Standard 03/12/2020 |
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