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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 Its Effect on Place of Delivery and Post-Natal Check-Ups in Nepal
Dipty Nawal,Srinivas Goli +1 more
TL;DR: It is fosters that developing countries like Nepal have to ensure adequate and universal birth preparedness in order to achieve goal 4 and 5 of MDGs.
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mHealth intervention "ImTeCHO" to improve delivery of maternal, neonatal, and child care services-A cluster-randomized trial in tribal areas of Gujarat, India.
Dhiren Modi,Nishith Dholakia,Ravi Gopalan,Sethuraman Venkatraman,Kapilkumar Dave,Shobha Shah,Gayatri Desai,Shamim Qazi,Anju Sinha,Ravindra Mohan Pandey,Ankit Anand,Shrey Desai,Pankaj Shah +12 more
TL;DR: It is found that use of ImTeCHO mobile- and web-based application as a job aid by government ASHAs and Primary Health Center staff improved coverage and quality of MNCH services in hard-to-reach areas.
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Adult mortality from sibling survival data: a reappraisal of selection biases.
TL;DR: Gakidou and King’s weighting scheme has been incorrectly applied to survey data, leading to overestimates of mortality, especially for males, and the evidence for an association between mortality and sibship size in adulthood is reviewed.
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Impact of Birth Preparedness and Complication Readiness Interventions on Birth with a Skilled Attendant: A Systematic Review.
Andrea Solnes Miltenburg,Yadira Roggeveen,Laura Shields,Marianne van Elteren,Jos van Roosmalen,Jelle Stekelenburg,Anayda Portela +6 more
TL;DR: Birth Preparedness and Complication Readiness interventions can increase knowledge of preparations for birth and complications; however this does not always correspond to an increase in the use of a skilled attendant at birth.
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Trends of modern contraceptive use among young married women based on the 2000, 2005, and 2011 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Surveys: a multivariate decomposition analysis.
TL;DR: Modern contraceptive use among young married women has showed a remarkable increase over the last decade in Ethiopia, and programmatic interventions targeting poor, younger (adolescent), illiterate, and Muslim women would help to maintain the increasing trend in modern contraceptive use.
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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.