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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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Factors associated with intimate partner violence against women in a mega city of South-Asia: multi-centre cross-sectional study.
TL;DR: It is imperative that intimate partner violence be considered a major public health concern and it can be prevented through comprehensive, multifaceted, and integrated approaches.
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Charting the way forward to better quality health care: how do we get there and what are the next steps? Recommendations from the Salzburg Global Seminar on making health care better in low- and middle-income economies
M. Rashad Massoud,Nana Mensah-Abrampah,Sylvia Sax,Sheila Leatherman,Bruce D. Agins,Pierre M. Barker,Edward Kelley,James R. Heiby,John Lotherington +8 more
TL;DR: This work summarizes the Salzburg Global Seminar's key results, expressed as five shared challenges and five lessons learned, and concludes there is an inarguable need to move improvement in health care to a new level to attain and exceed the Millennium Development Goals.
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Factors Shaping Interactions Among Community Health Workers in Rural Ethiopia: Rethinking Workplace Trust and Teamwork
TL;DR: Examining how sociodemographic and structural factors shape teamwork among community-based maternal and newborn health workers in Ethiopia found a core set of factors-trust in coworkers, gender, and cadre-were influential for teamwork across groups.
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Pay-for-performance and the Millennium Development Goals
Dominic Montagu,Gavin Yamey +1 more
TL;DR: This analysis finds that in sub-Saharan Africa, from 2003 to the present, 78% of births among the poorest women occurred at home, of which 56% were unattended, so increasing the proportion of poor women receiving skilled obstetric care is a complex public health challenge that defies easy solutions.
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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.