An autopsy study of maternal mortality in Mozambique: the contribution of infectious diseases. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Maternal mortality is a major health problem concentrated in resource-poor regions. Accurate data on its causes using rigorous methods is lacking, but is essential to guide policy-makers and health professionals to reduce this intolerable ...
Llorenç Quintó +41 more
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Maternal, infant, and perinatal mortality statistics and trends in Korea between 2018 and 2020 [PDF]
Purpose This study aimed to identify maternal, infant, and perinatal mortality using the national population data of South Korea between 2018 and 2020, and to analyze mortality rates according to characteristics such as age, date of death, and cause of ...
Hyunkyung Choi +5 more
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Trends in Maternal Mortality and Impact of Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) on Maternal Mortality Ratio in a Tertiary Referral Hospital [PDF]
To analyse the impact of Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) on Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR).Retrospective analysis of maternal mortality.Analysis of all maternal deaths between January 2001 and December 2009.The total number of deliveries has been steadily rising from 1,685 in 2001 to 3,957 in 2009. The MMR doubled from 1,500/100,000 live births in 2001 to
Gita, Guin +3 more
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Professional assistance during birth and maternal mortality in two Indonesian districts. [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: To examine determinants of maternal mortality and assess the effect of programmes aimed at increasing the number of births attended by health professionals in two districts in West Java, Indonesia.
Pambudi, E +17 more
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Maternal health interventions in resource limited countries: a systematic review of packages, impacts and factors for change. [PDF]
The burden of maternal mortality in resource limited countries is still huge despite being at the top of the global public health agenda for over the last 20 years.
Roosmalen, J. van +13 more
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Background Reducing maternal mortality remains a global priority. In 2000, the United Nations Member States pledged to work towards a series of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), in which the fifth target was to reduce maternal mortality ratio by 75 ...
Pengyu Zhao +5 more
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Maternal Mortality Ratio (per 100,000 live births) [29, 42]. [PDF]
Maternal Mortality Ratio (per 100,000 live births) [29, 42].
Archa Misra (6541904) +4 more
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Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the maternal mortality rate in Brazil: trend and spatial distribution [PDF]
Objective: To analyze the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Maternal Mortality Ratio in Brazil from 2018 to 2021. Method: Ecological time series study, which analyzed the trend and spatial distribution of maternal deaths from 2018 to 2021, with ...
Izabel Cristina da Silva Carvalho +5 more
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Contribution of Maternal Age and Pregnancy Checkbox on Maternal Mortality Ratios in the United States, 1978-2012 [PDF]
(Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2017;217(3):352.e1–352.e7) The United States has seen a rise in the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in the past decade, one of only 8 countries to do so. Three possible reasons for this include: an increasing maternal age and therefore increase in higher-risk pregnancies, changes in age-specific MMRs, and the inclusion of
Nicole L, Davis +4 more
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Occupation and maternal mortality in Brazil
OBJECTIVE To estimate maternal mortality ratio according to occupation in Brazil. METHODS This is a mortality study conducted with national data from the Mortality Information System (SIM) and the Live Birth Information System (SINASC) in 2015 ...
Ana Isabela Feitosa-Assis +1 more
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