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Relationship Between Household Socio-Economic Status and under-five Mortality in Rufiji DSS, Tanzania. [PDF]
Disparities in health outcomes between the poor and the better off are increasingly attracting attention from researchers and policy makers. However, policies aimed at reducing inequity need to be based on evidence of their nature, magnitude, and ...
Cornelius Nattey +8 more
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Background Disparities have been documented in maternal mortality rates between women from different ethnic, age and socio‐economic groups in the UK. It is unclear whether there are differential changes in these rates amongst women from different groups ...
M. Knight +4 more
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Community-based health communication model as maternal mortality mitigation [PDF]
The study aimed to map a community-based health communication model as a mitigation effort to reduce the risk of maternal mortality in Indonesia using a social support theory.
Petrus Ana Andung +3 more
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Background The reduction in maternal mortality worldwide has increased the interest in studying more frequent severe events such as maternal near miss.
Santiago García-Tizón Larroca +5 more
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Measles vaccination in the presence or absence of maternal measles antibody: impact on child survival. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Measles vaccine (MV) has a greater effect on child survival when administered in early infancy, when maternal antibody may still be present.
Aaby, Peter +9 more
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Over the past two decades, maternal mortality rates have declined around the world. In the United States, however, 700 women die each year as a result of pregnancy or delivery complications. This represents a 50% increase in the U.S.
Bani Saluja, Zenobia Bryant
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Maternal mortality rate is the important health indicator which is used as a component of Nation Development Index or quality of life index in all countries in the world.
Sri Sumarmi
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Maternal Age at Birth and under-5 Mortality in Nigeria [PDF]
The paper examined the impact of maternal age at birth on under-5 death in Nigeria. Secondary data were generated from the 2003 Nigeria Demographic and Health Surveys in examining the relationship between maternal age at birth and under-5 mortality risk.
Agunbiade, Ojo +3 more
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Overview of US Maternal Mortality Policy.
PURPOSE The maternal mortality rate in the United States has been rising for many years, putting the United States out of step with peer countries. This article provides an overview of current policy and policy issues aimed at improving the maternal ...
J. Villavicencio, K. McHugh, B. Edmonds
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Apgar score and the risk of cause specific infant mortality: a population based cohort study of 1,029,207 livebirths [PDF]
Background<p></p> The Apgar score has been used worldwide as an index of early neonatal condition for more than 60 years. With advances in health-care service provision, neonatal resuscitation, and infant care, its present relevance is ...
Iliodromiti, Stamatina +4 more
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