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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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Factors associated with maternal near miss in childbirth and the postpartum period: findings from the birth in Brazil National Survey, 2011-2012.
Rosa Maria Soares Madeira Domingues,Marcos Augusto Bastos Dias,Arthur Orlando Corrêa Schilithz,Maria do Carmo Leal +3 more
TL;DR: The high proportion of elective C-sections performed among women in better social and economic situations in Brazil is likely attenuating the benefits that could be realized from improved prenatal care and greater access to maternity services.
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Game changers: why did the scale-up of HIV treatment work despite weak health systems?
TL;DR: Further work is needed to enhance the quality of programs, to energetically tackle HIV prevention, to build on this success, and to address other health threats that these same communities face.
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Network For Surveillance Of Severe Maternal Morbidity: A Powerful National Collaboration Generating Data On Maternal Health Outcomes And Care
TL;DR: To identify cases of severe maternal morbidity during pregnancy and childbirth, their characteristics, and to test the feasibility of scaling up World Health Organization criteria for identifying women at risk of a worse outcome, a large number of cases are studied.
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United States global health policy: HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, and The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
Sarah C. Leeper,A. H. Reddi +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that policies that de-emphasize PEPFAR threaten to undermine, rather than support, MCH in countries with high HIV/AIDS prevalence, and advocated the vertical integration of MCH initiatives into PEPfAR in order to create a comprehensive approach to addressing MCH against the global backdrop of HIV/ AIDS.
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Maternal Mortality in the United States: Recent Trends, Current Status, and Future Considerations
K.S. Joseph,Amélie Boutin,Sarka Lisonkova,Giulia M. Muraca,Neda Razaz,Sid John,Azar Mehrabadi,Yasser Sabr,Cande V. Ananth,Enrique F. Schisterman +9 more
TL;DR: The pregnancy checkbox, introduced in the revised 2003 death certificate and implemented by the states in a staggered manner, resulted in increased identification of maternal deaths and in reported maternal mortality rates.
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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.