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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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Quality of Prenatal Care and Associated Factors among Pregnant Women at Public Health Facilities of Wogera District, Northwest Ethiopia
TL;DR: The overall quality of prenatal care in this study was low and promoting focused prenatal care and increasing infrastructure, encouraging maternal education, and compensating for the healthcare costs for women with low household income might enhance the quality of the care.
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Factors influencing the utilization of Focused antenatal care services during pregnancy, a study among postnatal women in a tertiary healthcare facility, Ghana.
Kennedy Diema Konlan,Joel Afram Saah,Roberta Mensima Amoah,Abdul Razak Doat,Iddrisu Mohammed,Juliana Asibi Abdulai,Kennedy Dodam Konlan +6 more
TL;DR: To assess the factors that influence the utilization of FANC services among pregnant women, a large number of studies have looked at the use of these services among women with high-risk pregnancies.
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Midwifery decision making during the first stage of labour within the Malawian context
TL;DR: How Malawian midwives make decisions during the first stage of labour in a hospital setting is explored and contextual factors influencing midwifery decision making, including the role of cue acquisition, are identified.
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Every woman, every time
TL;DR: The Affordable Care Act acknowledges that, for us as obstetricians and gynecologists to care for women, the authors must focus on health and wellness, and it provides for preventive health care as a covered benefit.
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Reducing Maternal Mortality in Nigeria: An Approach through Policy Research and Capacity Building
TL;DR: There is a growing concern that Nigeria may not achieve the maternal mortality reduction aims of the Millennium Development Goals, if the present trend continues, and an emergency need for programs and policies aimed at accelerating progress towards addressing the problem.
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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.