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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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Antenatal Care Among Poor Women in Mexico in the Context of Universal Health Coverage
TL;DR: To increase the impact of SP on antenatal care requires focusing on efforts to promote timely attendance as an important factor towards achieving the goal of universal health coverage of maternal and child health services in Mexico.
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Joining-up thinking: loss in childbearing from inter-disciplinary perspectives. Introduction.
TL;DR: The authors draw attention to loss in childbearing as a physical psychological social economic and public health problem intertwined with social political and economic inequities that are affronts to social justice and human rights.
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Measuring Differential Maternal Mortality Using Census Data in Developing Countries
TL;DR: In this article, the feasibility of using census data to analyse differentials (e.g. by education and age) of maternal mortality in low-resource countries was explored by using data from Lesotho and Nicaragua.
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Bayesian Estimation of Population-Level Trends in Measures of Health Status
TL;DR: In this paper, a Bayesian model was proposed to systematically combine disparate data to make country-, region-and global-level estimates of time trends in important health indicators, such as blood pressure.
The Maternal Migration Effect : Exploring Maternal Healthcare in Diaspora Using Qualitative Proxies for Medical Anthropology
TL;DR: This project explores the 'maternal migration effect' following migration to a high-income country with a low maternal mortality rate, and assumes that some immigrant women’s reliance upon maternal ...
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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.