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National estimates for maternal mortality: an analysis based on the WHO systematic review of maternal mortality and morbidity

BMC Public Health, 2005
Background Despite the worldwide commitment to improving maternal health, measuring, monitoring and comparing maternal mortality estimates remain a challenge.
Gülmezoglu A Metin, Posner Samuel F, Wojdyla Daniel, Betrán Ana P   +3 more
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Seventh annual report of the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee: Reporting mortality 2011

, 2013
This is the seventh annual report of the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee (PMMRC). The aim of this committee is to identify areas in maternity and newborn care where improvements could be made. The purpose of this report is to provide an
Farquhar, CM
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Peripartum infections and associated maternal mortality in rural Malawi [PDF]

, 2011
Article approval pendingTo assess associations between maternal mortality and severe morbidity and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, uptake of antiretroviral therapy, obstetric infections, and nonobstetric infections in a rural Malawian ...
Stefan de Vroome, Jos van Roosmalen, Roosmalen, J. van, Mwagomba, B., van den Akker, T, Ford, N., Ford, N, van Roosmalen, J, de Vroome, S, Beatrice Mwagomba, Vroome, S. de, Nathan Ford, Akker, T. van den, Mwagomba, B, Thomas van den Akker   +14 more
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Evidence for adaptive explanations of semelparity in animals

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Semelparity, the reproductive strategy of reproducing once, is widespread but uncommon in animals. Classes of models to explain the evolution of semelparity are based either on age structure and mortality schedules – demographic models in which high post‐reproductive mortality risk favours high reproductive effort and semelparity results from ...
Diana O. Fisher, Roberto Salguero‐Gómez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Maternal and infant health in South Carolina 2023

, 2023
This flier contains statistical information about maternal and infant health in South ...
South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, Maternal Mortality - South Carolina Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee (SC MMMRC)   +1 more
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How developmental stressors affect mitochondrial respiratory function: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The environmental conditions organisms experience during early development can have powerful and sustained effects on morphology, physiology, behaviour, and performance. Such developmental effects can influence reproductive success, survival, and life‐history strategies and can be transmitted across generations (i.e.
Ondi L. Crino, Christopher R. Friesen, Geoffrey E. Hill, Dalton C. Leibold, Pablo Recio, Karine Salin, Kristoffer H. Wild, Daniel W.A. Noble   +7 more
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Four Years Maternal Missed Mortality Ratio and Mortality Index at A Tertiary  Care Hospital in Azad Kashmir

Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal
Objective: To calculate the Maternal Near Miss Mortality Ratio and Mortality Index at a tertiary care hospital in a developing country with limited healthcare resources. Study Design: Retrospective analytical study.
Ambreen Ehsan, Maryam Zubair, Abida Islam, Amera Tariq, Umairah Yaqub, Nosheena Shabbir   +5 more
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Levels and Differentials in Maternal Mortality in Rural India:New Evidence from Sisterhood Data [PDF]

The paper presents estimates of maternal mortality derived from the NCAER-HDI survey (1994) for rural areas of India by broad geographical regions and by some selected background characteristics of respondents.
Mari Bhat, P.N.
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Food‐solicitation displays in nestling birds: still begging for answers

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nestling begging is a key model for understanding animal communication and parent–offspring conflict. Dynamic begging displays are often interpreted as costly, honest signals of need, with honesty maintained by viability costs, as proposed in Godfray's influential signalling model.
Daniel Parejo‐Pulido, Tomás Redondo
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Social Differences in Maternal Mortality in Zeeland 1812–1913

Historical Life Course Studies
Using population reconstructions from linked civil certificates for the province of Zeeland, the Netherlands, for the period 1812–1913, I study the social gradient in maternal mortality. Maternal mortality is defined as deaths in the first 42 days after
Ingrid K. van Dijk
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