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The WHO maternal near-miss approach and the maternal severity index model (MSI): tools for assessing the management of severe maternal morbidity.

PLoS ONE, 2012
ObjectivesTo validate the WHO maternal near-miss criteria and develop a benchmark tool for severe maternal morbidity assessments.MethodsIn a multicenter cross-sectional study implemented in 27 referral maternity hospitals in Brazil, a one-year ...
Joao Paulo Souza, Jose Guilherme Cecatti, Samira M Haddad, Mary Angela Parpinelli, Maria Laura Costa, Leila Katz, Lale Say, Brazilian Network for Surveillance of Severe Maternal Morbidity Group, Brazilian Network for Surveillance of Severe Maternal Morbidity   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Burden of severe maternal morbidity and association with adverse birth outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia: protocol for a prospective cohort study. [PDF]

, 2016
OBJECTIVES: The AMANHI morbidity study aims to quantify and describe severe maternal morbidities and assess their associations with adverse maternal, fetal and newborn outcomes in predominantly rural areas of nine sites in eight South Asian and sub ...
AMANHI Maternal Morbidity study group
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Reassessing the Duration of the Second Stage of Labor in Relation to Maternal and Neonatal Morbidity. [PDF]

, 2018
OBJECTIVE: To assess the morbidity associated with continuing the second-stage duration of labor, weighing the probability of spontaneous vaginal birth without morbidity compared with birth with serious maternal or neonatal complications.
Allen, Cheng, Cohen, Hamilton, Hamilton, Hellman, Laughon, Menticoglou, Moon, Myles, Rouse, Saunders, Scrucca, Spong, Zhang   +14 more
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Nutrition and maternal morbidity and mortality [PDF]

British Journal of Nutrition, 2001
Nearly 600 000 women die every year from pregnancy related conditions and the maternal mortality rates (MMR = deaths per 100 000 live births) in developing countries may be as high as 1000 compared with less than ten in industrialised countries. In the light of the striking impact of deficiencies of micronutrients such as vitamin A and zinc on immune ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Prospective study on prevalence of anemia of pregnant women and its outcome: A community based study

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2017
Background: Anemia is one of the most common nutritional deficiency disorders affecting the pregnant women in the developing countries. Anemia during pregnancy is commonly associated with poor pregnancy outcome and can result in complications that ...
Ravishankar Suryanarayana, Muninarayana Chandrappa, Anil Navale Santhuram, S Prathima, S R Sheela   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Achieving the Millennium Development Goal of reducing maternal mortality in rural Africa: an experience from Burundi. [PDF]

, 2012
OBJECTIVES: To estimate the reduction in maternal mortality associated with the emergency obstetric care provided by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and to compare this to the fifth Millennium Development Goal of reducing maternal mortality.
Baskett, Campbell, Filippi, Fournier, Graham, Kongnyuy, Li, Maine, Mantel, Murray, Pattinson, Paxton, Penney, Prual, Ronsmans, Say, UNICEF/WHO/UNFPA, Waterstone, WHO, Zachariah   +19 more
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The global prevalence of postpartum psychosis: a systematic review

BMC Psychiatry, 2017
Background Mental health is a significant contributor to global burden of disease and the consequences of perinatal psychiatric morbidity can be substantial.
Rachel VanderKruik, Maria Barreix, Doris Chou, Tomas Allen, Lale Say, Lee S. Cohen, on behalf of the Maternal Morbidity Working Group   +6 more
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Using medical expenditure panel survey data to explore the relationship between patient-centered medical homes and racial disparities in severe maternal morbidity outcomes

Women's Health, 2023
Background: There are persistent racial/ethnic disparities in the occurrence of severe maternal morbidity. Patient-centered medical home care has the potential to address disparities in maternal outcomes.
Curisa M Tucker, Nathaniel Bell, Cynthia F Corbett, Audrey Lyndon, Tisha M Felder   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Health disparities in chronic liver disease

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian, Marina Serper, Norah Terrault, Lauren D. Nephew   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A bibliometric analysis of literatures in terms of WHO maternal morbidity definition

Shanghai yufang yixue, 2022
ObjectiveThis study used bibliometrics to analyze the global application and research progress of the new WHO maternal morbidity definition.MethodsA Total of 13 literatures published by WHO-MMWG since 2013 were collected， and a total of 249 citing ...
CHEN Meiyi, QIAN Xu
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