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Factors Affecting Maternal Mortality in an Alert Village in South Timor Tengah, East Nusa Tenggara [PDF]
, 2017 Background: Maternal mortality may be attributable to direct or indirect causes, such as social, cultural, economic, and geographical factors. The purpose of this study was to determine factors affecting the risk of maternal mortality in an alert village
Nggadas, B. (Belandina) +2 more
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A two-year retrospective study of maternal mortality in tertiary care hospitals in South India
Journal of Medical and Scientific ResearchBackground: The death of a woman during pregnancy or within 42 completed days after delivery of the baby, irrespective of the duration or site of pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy, but not from accidental or incidental ...
Patil D +3 more
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Maternal health and its affecting factors in Nepal
Family Medicine and Community Health, 2016 Maternal health is still a public health problem in developing countries, especially in low-resource settings rural and poor communities. The main aim of this article is to critically evaluate and explore the situation of maternal health in Nepal based ...
Gehendra Mahara +4 more
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Brazilian Obstetric Observatory [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Covid-19 is responsible for high mortality in all countries, with the maternal population it is no different. Countries with a high rate of maternal mortality have deficiencies in the health care of pregnant women and women who have recently given birth, which will certainly be enhanced in a situation of overload in the health system, as occurred in ...
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Health Economics Review, 2022 Background Maternal and neonatal mortality is high in South Asia. Recent studies have identified factors such as adolescent female fertility, healthcare spending is reducing maternal and neonatal mortality.
Shongkour Roy, Tanjina Khatun
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Estimating causes of maternal death in data-sparse contexts [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Understanding the underlying causes of maternal death across all regions of the world is essential to inform policies and resource allocation to reduce the mortality burden. However, in many countries there exists very little data on the causes of maternal death, and data that do exist do not capture the entire population at risk.
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HIV and maternal mortality [PDF]
International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 2014 The majority of the 17 million women globally that are estimated to be infected with HIV live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Worldwide, HIV-related causes contributed to 19 000-56 000 maternal deaths in 2011 (6%-20% of maternal deaths). HIV-infected pregnant women have two to 10 times the risk of dying during pregnancy and the postpartum period compared with ...
Isabella Danel +2 more
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2018 Background Maternal ‘near miss’ can be a proxy for maternal death and it describes women who nearly died due to obstetric complications. It measures life threatening pregnancy related complications and allows the assessment of the quality of obstetric ...
Henry Chikadaya +2 more
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Timing of maternal death: Levels, trends, and ecological correlates using sibling data from 34 sub-Saharan African countries. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Millennium Development Goal 5 has not been universally achieved, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Understanding whether maternal deaths occur during pregnancy, childbirth, or puerperium is important to effectively plan maternal health programs and ...
Leena Merdad, Mohamed M Ali
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Reducing Maternal Mortality [PDF]
, 2010 Outlines MacArthur's efforts to reduce maternal mortality mainly in Mexico, Nigeria, and India by funding projects to develop scalable models, enhance health workers' skills, promote informed advocacy, and advance research.
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