Modern trends in preterm birth - Georgian reality.

Abstract

Background: The role of a properly organized health care system is one of the leading ones in obtaining positive demographic indicators for any state.

Preterm birth and the resulting prematurity are the leading cause of death in children under 5 years of age worldwide.

Premature delivery is defined as preterm delivery from 22 to 37 weeks of gestation.

The frequency of spontaneous preterm birth accounts for 65-70% of all preterm births, while the iatrogenic preterm birth rate amounts to 30-35%.

These terms have their gradations and divisions. In the context of determining and managing the risk of premature birth, the goal of modern obstetrics is the prolongation of pregnancy in order to reduce the complications associated with prematurity.

Aim: This article aims to summarize the management models of preterm delivery, which is directed to increase the positive demographic indicators in our country.

Methods: The data were collected from NCBI, PubMed, and ScienceDirect databases by using the keywords: preterm labor, prematurity, health care.

Conclusions: Education of patient/provider, healthy lifestyle, planning pregnancy, prevention of diseases, timely detection of risk groups and proper management, also creating of the antenatal care programs and their promotion must be considered as the effective management models of preterm delivery, which are directed to increase the positive demographic indicators as in our country, also worldwide.