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Community-linked maternal death review (CLMDR) to measure and prevent maternal mortality: a pilot study in rural Malawi [PDF]

BMJ Open, 2015
Background In Malawi, maternal mortality remains high. Existing maternal death reviews fail to adequately review most deaths, or capture those that occur outside the health system.
O. Bayley, Hilda Chapota, Esther Kainja, Tambosi Phiri, Chelmsford Gondwe, Carina King, B. Nambiar, C. Mwansambo, P. Kazembe, A. Costello, M. Rosato, T. Colbourn   +11 more
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Maternal death due to COVID‐19 and high BMI: A case report from Hamadan, Iran [PDF]

Clinical Case Reports, 2022
Pregnant women suffering chronic illness or obstetric complications such as obesity are prone to severe pneumonia and COVID‐19. Obesity in pregnancy is associated with many complications for both mother and fetus.
Samereh Ghelichkhani, Seyedeh Zahra Masoumi, Ebrahim Jalili, Hamideh Parsapour, Azam Ali Shirzadeh   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Maternal death surveillance and response

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2011
Of the eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals, the goal of reducing maternal mortality is the one that remains the furthest from reaching its targets.1–3 The inability to reliably measure levels and trends contributes to a lack of accountability and, in turn, to lack of progress.
Isabella Danel, Wendy J Graham, Ties Boerma   +2 more
doaj   +5 more sources

Maternal and newborn health for the urban poor: the need for a new mental model and implementation strategies to accelerate progress

Globalization and Health, 2022
Background Urbanization challenges the assumptions that have traditionally influenced maternal and newborn health (MNH) programs. This landscaping outlines how current mental models for MNH programs have fallen short for urban slum populations and ...
Shanon McNab, Elaine Scudder, Uzma Syed, Lynn P. Freedman   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Maternal mortality committee and death surveillance in Recife in improving information: ex-ante and ex-post evaluation [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Saúde Materno Infantil, 2023
Objectives: to evaluate the contribution of the Maternal Mortality and Death Surveillance Committee for women of childbearing age (WCA) and maternal mortality in the magnitude of maternal mortality and in the qualification of the causes of death in ...
Patrícia Ismael de Carvalho, Suely Arruda Vidal, Barbara de Queiroz Figueirôa, Lygia Carmen de Moraes Vanderlei, Conceição Maria de Oliveira, Cândida Correia de Barros Pereira, José Natal de Figueiroa, Paulo Germano de Frias   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Towards elimination of maternal deaths: maternal deaths surveillance and response [PDF]

Reproductive Health, 2013
Current methods for estimating maternal mortality lack precision, and are not suitable for monitoring progress in the short run. In addition, national maternal mortality ratios (MMRs) alone do not provide useful information on where the greatest burden of mortality is located, who is concerned, what are the causes, and more importantly what sub ...
Hounton, Sennen, de Bernis, Luc, Hussein, Julia, Graham, Wendy J, Danel, Isabella, Byass, Peter, Mason, Elizabeth M   +6 more
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Maternal Death Review at a Tertiary Hospital in Ethiopia

Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences, 2021
Background There is conflicting data on the rate and trends of maternal mortality in Ethiopia. There is no previous study done on the magnitude and trends of maternal death at Saint Paul's Hospital, an institution providing the largest labor and delivery
M. Shiferaw, Betregiorgis Hailu Zegeye, F. Surur, Bethel Dereje, L. B. Tolu   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

‘We all have the same right to have health services’: a case study of Namati’s legal empowerment program in Mozambique

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Legal empowerment and social accountability are two strategies that are increasingly used to address gaps in healthcare in low- and middle-income countries, including failure to provide services that should be available and poor clinical and ...
Marta Schaaf, Joana Falcao, Ellie Feinglass, Erin Kitchell, Nadja Gomes, Lynn Freedman   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Indirect causes of maternal death [PDF]

The Lancet Global Health, 2014
Comprehensive analyses of the causes of maternal mortality have been published by WHO and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. These analyses strikingly show the increasing importance of indirect causes of maternal death. Say and colleagues noted that 27·5% of all maternal deaths result from these indirect causes, with the highest ...
Storm, Frederikke, Agampodi, Suneth, Eddleston, Michael, Sørensen, Jane Brandt, Konradsen, Flemming, Rheinländer, Thilde   +5 more
openaire   +7 more sources

The community health worker as service extender, cultural broker and social change agent: a critical interpretive synthesis of roles, intent and accountability

BMJ Global Health, 2020
This paper is a critical interpretive synthesis of community health workers (CHWs) and accountability in low-income and middle-income countries. The guiding questions were: What factors promote or undermine CHWs as accountability agents?
Stephanie M Topp, Marta Schaaf, Lynn Freedman, Caitlin Warthin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source