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Health system readiness to manage maternal death data and avail evidence for decision-making through the Maternal Death Surveillance System in Ethiopia, 2020 [PDF]

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background Maternal mortality remains a major health problem in Ethiopia. To generate contextual evidence on the burden and distribution of existing causes and contributing factors for programmatic and individual-level decision-making, the Maternal Death
Abduilhafiz A. Endris, Tizita Tilahun
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Economic impact of maternal death on households in rural china: a prospective cohort study. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
OBJECTIVE:To assess the economic impact of maternal death on rural Chinese households during the year after maternal death. METHODS:A prospective cohort study matched 183 households who had suffered a maternal death to 346 households that experienced ...
Haijun Wang, Fang Ye, Yan Wang, Dale Huntington, study group for Economic Impact of Maternal Deaths in China   +4 more
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Trend and causes of maternal death, stillbirth and neonatal death over seven decades in Hong Kong

The Lancet Regional Health. Western Pacific, 2022
Summary: Background: Reducing maternal and perinatal mortality is a global objective. Hong Kong is a city with low maternal and perinatal mortality but little is known about the trend and causes of these deaths in this high-income city.
Ka Wang Cheung, Mimi Tin Yan Seto, Weilan Wang, Chi Tao Ng, William Wing Kee To, Ernest Hung Yu Ng   +5 more
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Levels and trends of maternal death in Baoan district, Shenzhen, China, 1999–2022 [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundChina had achieved impressive success in improving maternal health, while the progress of reducing maternal mortality ratio (MMR) varied across regions.
Wei Wang, Yuanfang Zhu, Yuli Cheng, Xu Chen, Yali Luo   +4 more
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Factors influencing maternal death surveillance and review implementation in Dodoma City, Tanzania. A qualitative case study [PDF]

Learning Health Systems
Background With 295 000 maternal deaths in 2017, 94% in low‐ and middle‐income countries, maternal death is a matter of global public health concern. To address it, Maternal Death Surveillance and Response (MDSR) strategy was introduced in 2013 by the ...
Nelson M. Rumbeli, Furaha August, Valeria Silvestri, Nathanael Sirili   +3 more
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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
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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
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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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‘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
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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
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