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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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Is the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) handbook effective in improving health-related behavior? Evidence from Palestine
TL;DR: The results suggest that although less-educated women rarely read the handbook themselves at home, they became familiar with health information and options related to MCH through personalized guidance that was provided by health providers at health facilities utilizing MCH handbook.
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Mobile health and maternal care: A winning combination for healthcare in the developing world?
TL;DR: The current state of knowledge on mobile health in developing countries, as well as the issues and challenges raised by mobile health are assessed, and a discussion on maternal health is focused to discuss the potential applications of these new techniques in this specific field.
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The impact of the worldwide Millennium Development Goals campaign on maternal and under-five child mortality reduction: ‘Where did the worldwide campaign work most effectively?’
TL;DR: The impact of the worldwide MDG campaign was most pronounced in this region in all respects and sub-Saharan African countries were frequently labeled as ‘off-track’, ‘insufficient progress‘, or ‘no progress’ even though the greatest progress was achieved here during the worldwide campaign period.
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Estimation of maternal mortality rates in Brazil, 2008-2011
Célia Landmann Szwarcwald,Juan José Cortez Escalante,Dácio de Lyra Rabello Neto,Paulo Roberto Borges de Souza Júnior,Cesar G. Victora +4 more
TL;DR: Results show that rates are higher than the target rate of the fifth Millennium Development Goal, but indicated a significant decrease in MMR during the period 1990 to 2011.
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Simulated clients reveal factors that may limit contraceptive use in Kisumu, Kenya
TL;DR: A better understanding of the factors influencing use of family planning has the potential to increase contraceptive prevalence and improve the ability of women and their partners to freely choose the number and spacing of their children.
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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.