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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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Health equity in the Arab world: the future we want
TL;DR: A new Lancet Series focuses on priority health issues in the Arab world, based on evidence interpreted mainly by scholars from the region, and adopts a multidisciplinary approach that includes medical, public health, social, and political perspectives.
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Politics, Political Settlements and Social Change in Post-Colonial Rwanda
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore key aspects of Rwanda's political evolution from independence to-date, and identify the nature of interactions between drivers of instability and political settlements over time.
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Maternal mortality due to hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium between 2012 and 2015 in Turkey: A nation-based study.
Bekir Keskinkılıç,Yaprak Engin-Ustun,Sema Sanisoğlu,Şahin Uygur D,Hüseyin Levent Keskin,Selma Karaahmetoğlu,Ayşenur Sirin Özcan,Murat Esen,Afra Alkan,Aysun Kabasakal,İrfan Şencan +10 more
TL;DR: Almost one third of maternal death due to hypertensive disorders could be prevented because of most frequent cause of death was intracranial hemorrhage, and the importance of acute antihypertensive treatment should be emphasized.
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Engendering the Attainment of the SDG-3 in Africa: Overcoming the Socio Cultural Factors Contributing to Maternal Mortality.
TL;DR: The need for key interventions to mitigate the impact of negative sociocultural practices and social inequality that decrease women's access to evidence-based reproductive health services that lead to high rate of maternal mortality is highlighted.
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Inégalités sociales de santé maternelle
Elie Azria,Z. Stewart,Clémentine Gonthier,Candice Estellat,Candice Estellat,Catherine Deneux-Tharaux +5 more
TL;DR: It appears that social inequalities also exist concerning severe maternal morbidity as well as maternal mortality in terms of perinatal risk and maternal mortality.
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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.