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Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980-2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5.

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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.
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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.

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What is the cause of the decline in maternal mortality in India? Evidence from time series and cross-sectional analyses

TL;DR: Compared with the estimates of relative effects, the socioeconomic and demographic factors have a stronger statistically significant association with the maternal mortality ratio than institutional deliveries, suggesting that merely increasing deliveries alone will not help in ensuring maternal survival in India.
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Maternal Mortality in Colombia in 2011: A Two Level Ecological Study

TL;DR: Poverty and transparency in a contextual level were associated with the increase of the municipal MMR in Colombia and are useful evidence for informing the public policies discussion and formulation processes with a differential approach.
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New global guidance supports community and lay health workers in postpartum hemorrhage prevention

TL;DR: Community engagement and empowerment are critical strategies in successful misoprostol for PPH programs, and must increasingly be viewed as part of efforts to improve maternal health and achieve Millennium Development Goal 5.
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Recombinant alpha-1-microglobulin: a potential treatment for preeclampsia.

TL;DR: Intravenous administration of recombinant alpha-1-microglobulin in animal models has been proved to eliminate or significantly reduce the manifestations of preeclampsia, and has the potential to become the first specific therapy for preeClampsia.
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Costs and consequences of abortions to women and their households: A cross-sectional study in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

TL;DR: It is suggested that payments associated with induced abortion were catastrophic as they consumed 15% of the gross domestic product per capita and 11–16% of total households appeared to have resorted to coping strategies in order to face costs.
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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

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.
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