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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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Birth preparedness and skilled attendance at birth in Nepal: implications for achieving millennium development goal 5
TL;DR: It appears that the more arrangements made, the more likely were the women to have skilled attendance at birth, and intention to deliver in a health-care facility as measured by birth preparedness indicators was associated with actual skilled Attendance at birth.
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Patient safety and quality of care in developing countries in Southeast Asia: a systematic literature review.
TL;DR: Large-scale prevalence studies are needed to identify the full range of safety and quality problems in developing countries in Southeast Asia and strategies to facilitate the collection of robust safety andquality data are needed.
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‘A Normal Delivery Takes Place at Home’: A Qualitative Study of the Location of Childbirth in Rural Ethiopia
TL;DR: Understanding the socio-cultural determinants that influence the location of delivery has implications for service provision, and these determinants should be actively incorporated into maternal newborn and child health policy and programming in ways that encourage the utilisation of health facilities, even for routine deliveries.
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What impact does contact with the prenatal care system have on women’s use of facility delivery? Evidence from low-income countries
TL;DR: The results show that prenatal attendance does appreciably influence the use of facility delivery in all three geographical regions, and indicate that obstetrics care is geographically and economically more accessible to urban and rural women from the non-poor households than those from the poor households.
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Antenatal Care Services in Rural Uganda Missed Opportunities for Good-Quality Care
Paul Conrad,Manuela De Allegri,Arinaitwe Moses,Elin C. Larsson,Florian Neuhann,Olaf Müller,Malabika Sarker +6 more
TL;DR: This article finds several bottlenecks in health service delivery, including ineffective organization of educational sessions; selective omission of certain services; lack of explanation of important clinical and laboratory procedures; failure to link the performed procedures with preventive information; and occasional lack of respect for clients.
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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.