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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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Relationship between women's characteristics and continuum of care for maternal health in Kenya: Complex survey analysis using structural equation modeling.
Patrick Opiyo Owili,Miriam Adoyo Muga,Yiing Jenq Chou,Yi Hsin Elsa Hsu,Nicole Huang,Li Yin Chien +5 more
TL;DR: Women aged 15–49 years in the 2008/2009 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey data were used to explore the complex relationships in the continuum of care for maternal health using structural equation modeling, and the three periods of maternal health care were related to each other.
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Improved accessibility of emergency obstetrics and newborn care(EmONC) services for maternal and newborn health: a community based project
Ali Turab,Shabina Ariff,Muhammad Atif Habib,Imran Ahmed,Masawar Hussain,Akhtar Rashid,Zahid Memon,Mohammad Imran Khan,Sajid Bashir Soofi,Zulfiqar A Bhutta +9 more
TL;DR: The findings of this proposed community based trial will provide sufficient evidence on feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness to the policy makers for replicating and scaling up the interventions within the health system.
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An assessment of maternal, newborn and child health implementation studies in Nigeria: implications for evidence informed policymaking and practice
Chigozie Jesse Uneke,Issiaka Sombié,Namoudou Keita,Virgil Lokossou,Ermel Johnson,Pierre Ongolo-Zogo +5 more
TL;DR: There is a dire need for more implementation research related to MNCH in low income settings because the priority for improved MNCH outcome is not so much the development of new technologies but solving implementation issues, such as how to scale up and evaluate interventions within complex health systems.
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Late Maternal Deaths and Deaths from Sequelae of Obstetric Causes in the Americas from 1999 to 2013: A Trend Analysis.
Federico G. de Cosio,Safia S. Jiwani,Antonio Sanhueza,Patricia Soliz,Francisco Becerra-Posada,Marcos A. Espinal +5 more
TL;DR: Late and obstetric sequelae maternal deaths should be included in the monitoring of the SDGs as well as in the revision of the International Classification of Diseases’ 11th version (ICD-11).
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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.