Ties Boerma

TL;DR: This work uses information from demographic reproductive health surveys to estimate the global, regional, and country levels, patterns, and trends in infertility between 1990 and 2010.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided from several countries showing that rapid progress is possible and that focused and targeted interventions can reduce inequities related to socioeconomic status and sex and much more can and should be done to address maternal and newborn health and improve coverage of interventions related to family planning, care around childbirth, and case management of childhood illnesses.

TL;DR: An overview of the met and methods used by the World Health Organization to develop global-, regional- and country-level estimates of mortality for a comprehensive set of causes for the year 2004 is provided.

TL;DR: The Health Metrics Network, a global collaboration in the making, is intended to help bring solutions to the countries most in need by helping generate, analyse and disseminate sound data.

TL;DR: The Countdown to 2015 for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Survival (Countdown) initiative as mentioned in this paper was a multistakeholder initiative of more than 40 academic, international, bilateral, and civil society institutions to monitor progress and raise the visibility of the health of mothers, newborns, and children.