Journal ArticleDOI
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
TLDR
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
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Timing of maternal death: Levels, trends, and ecological correlates using sibling data from 34 sub-Saharan African countries.
Leena Merdad,Mohamed M. Ali +1 more
TL;DR: Ecological analysis showed that antenatal care coverage was significantly associated with low antepartum mortality, whereas the presence of a skilled attendant at childbirth was significantlyassociated with low postpartum mortality.
Journal ArticleDOI
The influence of intrafamilial power on maternal health care in Mali: perspectives of women, men and mothers-in-law.
TL;DR: Interventions focusing on women or couples may be insufficient to advance women's reproductive health in patriarchal societies such as Mali, and future research and programmatic efforts need to address gender norms and consider the influence of other family members, such as mothers-in-law.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Uptake of Integrated Perinatal Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Programs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review
Lorainne Tudor Car,Serena Brusamento,Hoda Elmoniry,Michelle Helena van Velthoven,Utz Johann Pape,Vivian Welch,Peter Tugwell,Azeem Majeed,Igor Rudan,Josip Car,Rifat Atun +10 more
TL;DR: The uptake of counseling and HIV testing among pregnant women attending antenatal care was high, but their retention in PMTCT programs was low, and the majority of women in the included studies did not receive ARV prophylaxis in antenatal Care; nor did they attend labor ward.
Journal ArticleDOI
Trends in sociodemographic and health-related indicators in Bangladesh, 1993-2007: will inequities persist?
Mobarak Hossain Khan,Alexander Krämer,Aklimunnessa Khandoker,Luise Prüfer-Krämer,Anwar Islam +4 more
TL;DR: Rich-poor gaps in urbanization, age at marriage, fertility, condom use, home delivery and overweight increased; in contrast, gaps in education, water and sanitation, use of contraception (except condoms) and child vaccination declined.
Journal ArticleDOI
The effect of HIV infection on maternal health and mortality
N.F. Moran,Jagidesa Moodley +1 more
TL;DR: Reduction of HIV‐related maternal deaths must be seen as a worldwide priority in maternal health care.
References
More filters
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.
Journal ArticleDOI
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.
Journal ArticleDOI
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.
Journal ArticleDOI
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.