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Maternal mortality [PDF]

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2011
The reduction in maternal mortality over the last 100 years in high income countries is one of the greatest achievements of modern medicine, but one that in recent years seems to have been nearly forgotten. In a walk through nearly any old cemetery, one finds the grave markers of large numbers of young women, many who died in childbirth. The statistics
Elizabeth M. McClure, Robert L. Goldenberg   +1 more
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Disparities in maternal mortality

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2023
Abstract Maternal mortality rates in the USA remain high, with persistent racial and socioeconomic disparities. We identified 207,016 hospital admissions for pregnant women in Maryland, from 2017 to 2019. Logistic regression was used to identity factors associated with maternal death. The health outcome for black women was more prone to give rise to
Phuong Tran, Barbara Jreij, Farideh Sistani, Fadia T. Shaya   +3 more
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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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Improving Women’s Education Improves Maternal Health: Evidence from Peru [PDF]

, 2017
Maternal mortality in Peru declined over 70 percent between 1990 and 2015. Women’s education levels rose during the same period. This brief by PRC faculty research associate Abigail Weitzman indicates that Peruvian women’s rising education levels ...
Weitzman, Abigail
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Costs of Inaction on Maternal Mortality: Qualitative Evidence of the Impacts of Maternal Deaths on Living Children in Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2013
Little is known about the interconnectedness of maternal deaths and impacts on children, beyond infants, or the mechanisms through which this interconnectedness is established.
Boulanger, Vanessa M, Falb, Kathryn L, Leaning, Jennifer, Shuma, Jane, Yamin, Alicia Ely   +4 more
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Trends in maternal mortality in Suriname: 3 confidential enquiries in 3 decades [PDF]

, 2021
BACKGROUND: The Sustainable Development Goal target 3.1 aims to reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births. Great disparities reported in maternal mortality ratio between and within countries make this target ...
Committee Maternal Mortality Suriname (MaMS)
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Community-linked maternal death review (CLMDR) to measure and prevent maternal mortality: a pilot study in rural Malawi. [PDF]

, 2015
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.
Bayley, O, Chapota, H, Colbourn, T, Costello, A, Gondwe, C, Kainja, E, Kazembe, P, King, C, Mwansambo, C, Nambiar, B, Phiri, T, Rosato, M   +11 more
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Measuring maternal mortality : an overview of opportunities and options for developing countries [PDF]

, 2008
Background:There is currently an unprecedented expressed need and demand for estimates of maternal mortality in developing countries. This has been stimulated in part by the creation of a Millennium Development Goal that will be judged partly on the ...
A Paxton, AP MacKay, C AbouZahr, C Chandra-Sekar, C Hunger, C Ronsmans, C Ronsmans, C Stanton, C Stanton, C Stanton, CJ Murray, CL Abou-Zahr, D Chandromahan, E Fottrell, E Gakidou, F Binka, J Shiffman, K Hill, K Hill, K Hill, Ministry of Health and Population, Egypt, N Rutenberg, N Walker, O Campbell, OMR Campbell, OMR Campbell, PD Ghys, PW Setel, S Ahmed, S Ahmed, SC Amstrup, T Boerma, T Wardlaw, UNICEF, WHO, UNFPA, United Nations, V Fauveau, W Brass, WJ Graham, WJ Graham, WJ Graham, WJ Graham, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization/UNICEF   +46 more
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Impact of violence against women on severe acute maternal morbidity in the intensive care unit, including neonatal outcomes: a case–control study protocol in a tertiary healthcare facility in Lima, Peru [PDF]

, 2018
Introduction Preventing and reducing violence against women (VAW) and maternal mortality are Sustainable Development Goals. Worldwide, the maternal mortality ratio has fallen about 44% in the last 25 years, and for one maternal death there are many women
Ayala Quintanilla, Beatriz Paulina, McDonald, Susan J, Pollock, Wendy E, Taft, Angela J   +3 more
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Addressing Inequity to Achieve the Maternal and Child Health Millennium Development Goals: Looking Beyond Averages. [PDF]

, 2012
Inequity in access to and use of child and maternal health interventions is impeding progress towards the maternal and child health Millennium Development Goals.
A Amouzou, AR Hosseinpoor, C Kurowski, CG Victora, CG Victora, D Gwatkin, D McIntyre, DR Gwatkin, E Zere, E Zere, Frida N Ngalesoni, FutureInstitute, George M Ruhago, H Masanja, I Rudan, J Boerma, J Bryce, L Say, M Fox, M Islam, M Munga, MC Hogan, MOHSW, MOHSW, N Daniels, N Kakwani, N Walker, NBS[Tanzania] and ORCMacro, Ole F Norheim, R Lozano, S Thomsen, T Mkandawire, TH Julian, UNICEF, W DeCormier-Plosky, W Winfrey, W.H.O   +36 more
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