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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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A strategy to increase the number of deliveries with skilled birth attendants in Kenya.
TL;DR: To increase the number of deliveries with skilled birth attendant (SBAs) in Kenyan health facilities, with assistance from traditional birth attendants (TBAs).
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Maternal cumulative prevalence measures of child mortality show heavy burden in sub-Saharan Africa
TL;DR: Maternal cumulative prevalence measures of mortality for multiple age groups of mothers in 20 sub-Saharan African countries with Demographic and Health Surveys data spanning more than two decades are introduced, demonstrating the persistently high prevalence of African mothers who have ever experienced a child die.
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Why Is the U.S. Preterm Birth Rate So Much Higher Than the Rates in Canada, Great Britain, and Western Europe?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the array of risk exposures and protective factors common to women across national settings, using national, regional, and international databases, review articles, and research reports, finding that U.S. women have higher rates of obesity, heart disease, and poor health status than women in other countries.
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Longitudinal course of ante- and postpartum generalized anxiety symptoms and associated factors in West-African women from Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.
Dana Barthel,Dana Barthel,Levente Kriston,Claus Barkmann,John Appiah-Poku,Marguerite Te Bonle,Kra Yao Esther Doris,Bony Kotchi Carine Esther,Koffi Ekissi Jean Armel,Yasmin Mohammed,Yaw Osei,Daniel Fordjour,Dorcas Owusu,Kirsten Alexandra Eberhardt,Rebecca Hinz,Mathurin Koffi,Eliézer K. N’Goran,Samuel Blay Nguah,Harry Tagbor,Stefanie Schoppen,Stephan Ehrhardt,Carola Bindt +21 more
TL;DR: The presence of different trajectories of ante- and postpartum generalizedxiety symptoms in West-African women and their associations with mother and child characteristics underline the importance of monitoring anxiety symptoms in pregnant women and in mothers with infants/toddlers.
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Utilization of services under Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram for institutional deliveries in the public sector facilities, Sirmaur District, Himachal Pradesh, India
TL;DR: JSSK benefitted the mothers utilizing the public sector facilities however drugs, consumables and transport contributed to the OOP expenditure.
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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.