PPH

¹ American  

Or P.P.H.

1. paid personal holidays.

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pph. ² American  

abbreviation

1. pamphlet.

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Example Sentences

PPH now accounts for one in 10 of maternal deaths in Niger, whereas before the project began it accounted for more than three times that.

From BBC

"Reducing deaths caused by bleeding after women give birth, by more than half across an entire country within one or two years has to my knowledge never been done before," PPH expert Prof André Lalonde said.

From BBC

In developing countries, PPH accounts for somewhere between 25% and 43% of maternal deaths.

From BBC

Regardless, the court concluded that the legislature could have passed the law “out of concern that its message could be diluted if PPH, the primary abortion provider in the state, delivered the state-sponsored sexual education programs.”

From Seattle Times

Few of the standard medical responses to PPH—uterotonic drugs, interventional radiology, even hysterectomies—were readily available in the fledgling, conflict-ravaged Republic of South Sudan, so Burke and his colleagues shifted their attention to uterine balloons, a simple mechanism that compresses against the source of the bleeding and helps activate the body’s own clotting response.

From The New Yorker