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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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Gaps and Strengths in US Policies on Infant and Young Child Feeding: An Analysis Based on the Global Strategy on Infant and Young Child Feeding
TL;DR: This research project reviews the evidence on the significance of infant and young child feeding to public health goals, analyzes US policy documents in relationship to the Global Strategy using the World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative to quantify the findings into a national score, and summarizes the gaps and strengths in US policies and makes recommendations.
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The Political Is Personal: Measurement and Application of Nation-Level Indicators of Gender Equity in Psychological Research
TL;DR: The United Nation Development Program's Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) as discussed by the authors is one of the most widely used measures of gender equity in psychological research, but it has not been applied to women's well-being.
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The effectiveness of regionalization of perinatal care services--a systematic review.
Arash Rashidian,Amir-Houshang Omidvari,Yasaman Vali,S. Mortaz,Reza Yousefi-Nooraie,Mehdi Jafari,Z.A. Bhutta +6 more
TL;DR: Implementing perinatal regionalization programs is correlated with improvements inPerinatal outcomes, but it is not possible to establish a causal link.
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Community-Based Care to Improve Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
TL;DR: Despite progress, maternal, neonatal, and under-five mortality remain high in many lowand middle-income countries (LMICs) and an appropriate mix of interventions can significantly reduce the burden of maternal and child mortality and morbidity.
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Perinatal mortality trends in Ethiopia
Yifru Berhan,Asres Berhan +1 more
TL;DR: The PMR of Ethiopia was among the highest in Sub Saharan Africa and over the decades, both hospital based and community based studies did not show a reduction in perinatal mortality.
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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.