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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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Lived experiences of women who developed uterine rupture following severe obstructed labor in Mulago hospital, Uganda.
Dan K Kaye,Othman Kakaire,Annettee Nakimuli,Michael O Osinde,Scovia Nalugo Mbalinda,Nelson Kakande +5 more
TL;DR: Uterine rupture is associated with poor quality of care due to factors that operate at personal, household, family, community and society levels, and results in dire physical, psychosocial and financial consequences for survivors.
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The Impact of Cardiac Diseases during Pregnancy on Severe Maternal Morbidity and Mortality in Brazil.
Felipe Favorette Campanharo,José Guilherme Cecatti,Samira M. Haddad,Mary Angela Parpinelli,Daniel Born,Maria Laura Costa,Rosiane Mattar +6 more
TL;DR: In this study, heart disease was significantly associated with a higher occurrence of severe maternal outcomes, including maternal death and maternal near miss, among women presenting with any severe maternal morbidity.
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L’enquête confidentielle française sur les morts maternelles, 1996–2006 : quelles conséquences pour les soins en obstétrique ?
TL;DR: Half of maternal deaths were considered preventable by the CNEMM, particularly haemorrhage and sepsis, and seven deaths are discussed in a specific section including a detailed description of, and recommendations on how the quality of care may be improved.
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Safe motherhood voucher programme coverage of health facility deliveries among poor women in South-western Uganda
TL;DR: The findings suggest that to the extent that the programme stimulated demand for SM services by new users, it has the potential of increasing facility-based births among poor women in the region and there is need to increase both voucher sales and the rate of redemption to improve coverage in districts with high levels of poverty.
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Trends in maternal mortality in resident vs. migrant women in Shanghai, China, 2000–2009: a register-based analysis
TL;DR: Maternal mortality in Shanghai decreased steadily from 2000 to 2009, reaching 10 per 100,000 live births in 2009, among Shanghai permanent residents the ratio was below ten in most of those years, while among migrant women it declined sharply from 58 to 12 per 100 the number of live births.
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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.