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Millennium Development Goals Report Card: Learning From Progress [PDF]
, 2010 Summarizes initial findings on both absolute and relative progress toward the millennium development goals to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, reduce child mortality, and improve maternal health at national, sub-national, and regional ...
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Policy Barriers Preventing Access to Emergency Obstetric are in Rural India [PDF]
India with its one billion people contributes to about 20% of all maternal deaths in the world. Even though infant mortality has declined in India maternal mortality has remained high at about 540 per 100,000 live births. Recent scientific evidence shows
Mavalankar, Dileep
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Agriculture driving male expansion in Neolithic Time [PDF]
arXiv, 2013 The emergence of agriculture is suggested to have driven extensive human population growths. However, genetic evidence from maternal mitochondrial genomes suggests major population expansions began before the emergence of agriculture. Therefore, role of agriculture that played in initial population expansions still remains controversial.
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Evaluation of the Impact of the Mother and Infant Health Project in Ukraine [PDF]
This paper exploits a unique opportunity to evaluate the impact of the quality change in the labor and delivery services on maternal and infant health. Since basic medical care has been universally available in Ukraine, implementation of the Mother and ...
Maria Vyshnya, Olena Nizalova
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Maternal mortality in a rural district of southeastern Tanzania: an application of the sisterhood method [PDF]
, 2017 Background Deaths from maternal causes represent the leading cause of death among women of reproductive age in most developing countries. It is estimated that the highest risk occurs in Africa, with 20% of world births but 40% of the world maternal ...
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Quantile contours and allometric modelling for risk classification of abnormal ratios with an application to asymmetric growth-restriction in preterm infants [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 We develop an approach to risk classification based on quantile contours and allometric modelling of multivariate anthropometric measurements. We propose the definition of allometric direction tangent to the directional quantile envelope, which divides ratios of measurements into half-spaces.
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Quality of maternal healthcare in India:Has the National Rural Health Mission made a difference? [PDF]
, 2011 Despite a five decade old Family Welfare programme, India still continues to contribute almost a quarter of the global estimates of maternal morbidity and mortality.
Nair, Harish, Panda, Rajmohan
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Bulletin of the World Health OrganizationOBJECTIVE: To provide a model-based method of estimating maternal mortality at the subnational level and illustrate its use in estimating maternal mortality rates (MMrates) and maternal mortality ratios (MMRs) in all 64 districts of Bangladesh.
Saifuddin Ahmed, Kenneth Hill
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