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Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980-2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5.
Margaret C. Hogan,Margaret C. Hogan,Kyle J Foreman,Mohsen Naghavi,Stephanie Y. Ahn,Mengru Wang,Susanna M Makela,Alan D. Lopez,Rafael Lozano,Christopher J L Murray +9 more
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Although only 23 countries are on track to achieve a 75% decrease in MMR by 2015, countries such as Egypt, China, Ecuador, and Bolivia have been achieving accelerated progress and substantial, albeit varied, progress has been made towards MDG 5.About:
This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2010-05-08. It has received 2163 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sisterhood method & Obstetric transition.read more
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Improving service uptake and quality of care of integrated maternal health services: the Kenya Kwale District improvement collaborative.
TL;DR: Whether improvement approaches can be applied to increase utilization of antenatal care, health facility deliveries, prevention of mother-to-child transmission services and adherence to ANC standards of care in a rural district in Kenya is explored.
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Novel approaches to combat preeclampsia: from new drugs to innovative delivery.
Natasha de Alwis,Natasha de Alwis,Natalie K Binder,Natalie K Binder,Sally Beard,Sally Beard,Tu'uhevaha J Kaitu'u-Lino,Tu'uhevaha J Kaitu'u-Lino,Stephen Tong,Stephen Tong,Fiona C Brownfoot,Fiona C Brownfoot,Natalie J. Hannan,Natalie J. Hannan +13 more
TL;DR: New targeted delivery systems are being developed to safely administer novel therapeutics directly to the placenta and/or endothelium, developed and used by the oncology field, now being adapted for obstetrics.
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Integrating mental health screening into routine community maternal and child health activity: experience from Prevention of Mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) trial in Nigeria
Theddeus Iheanacho,Michael Obiefune,Chinenye O. Ezeanolue,Gbenga Ogedegbe,Okey C. Nwanyanwu,John E. Ehiri,Jude U. Ohaeri,Echezona E. Ezeanolue +7 more
TL;DR: Mental health screening is feasible and well accepted among a cohort of pregnant women and their male partners and mental health interventions can be developed on the framework of the HBI.
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Maternal and child mortality indicators across 187 countries of the world: Converging or diverging
TL;DR: The results of absolute convergence estimates reveal that progress in maternal and child mortality indicators is diverging for the entire period of 1990–2010, and the Kernel estimates suggest that divergence is in progress across the countries worldwide but tended to converge for countries with low mortality levels.
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Can Reproductive Health Voucher Programs Improve Quality of Postnatal Care? A Quasi- Experimental Evaluation of Kenya's Safe Motherhood Voucher Scheme
TL;DR: Despite improvements in maternal aspects of PNC, a high proportion of mothers who seek PNC are not being checked by any provider after delivery, and additional strategies will be necessary to standardize provision of packaged postnatal interventions to both mother and newborn.
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The Millennium Development Goals Report
TL;DR: Ban et al. as discussed by the authors stated that the global community cannot turn its back on the poor and the vulnerable, and that the goals are within reach, and even in the very poor countries, with strong political commitment and sufficient and sustained funding.
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Locally Weighted Regression: An Approach to Regression Analysis by Local Fitting
TL;DR: Locally weighted regression as discussed by the authors is a way of estimating a regression surface through a multivariate smoothing procedure, fitting a function of the independent variables locally and in a moving fashion analogous to how a moving average is computed for a time series.
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CLARIFY: Software for Interpreting and Presenting Statistical Results
TL;DR: Clarify is a program that uses Monte Carlo simulation to convert the raw output of statistical procedures into results that are of direct interest to researchers, without changing statistical assumptions or requiring new statistical models.
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Maternal mortality: who, when, where, and why
Carine Ronsmans,Wendy J. Graham +1 more
TL;DR: Targeting of interventions to the most vulnerable--rural populations and poor people--is essential if substantial progress is to be achieved by 2015, and local variation can be important.