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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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Application of the Andersen-Newman model of health care utilization to understand antenatal care use in Kersa District, Eastern Ethiopia.
TL;DR: Intervention efforts to improve antenatal care utilization should involve improving women’s educational achievement, peer education programs to mobilize and support women, programs to change husbands’ attitudes, ameliorate the quality of antenatal Care, increasing the Health Extension Worker’'s home visits program, and increasing the awareness of pregnancy complications.
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Maternal mortality in Italy: a record-linkage study
TL;DR: Please cite this paper as: Donati S, Senatore S, Ronconi A and the Regional maternal mortality working group and the record‐linkage study.
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Home delivery among antenatal care booked women in their last pregnancy and associated factors: community-based cross sectional study in Debremarkos town, North West Ethiopia, January 2016
TL;DR: Education level, media exposure, geographic access to a health facility, Unplanned pregnancy, an institution where ANC was booked, perceived privacy during ANC and number of ANC visit were found to be determinants of home delivery in this study.
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More than mothers: aligning indicators with women's lives.
TL;DR: The inclusion of antiretroviral treatment for all eligible women, an important addition in later drafts, is the only attempt to expand these indicators beyond the reproductive period.
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Maternal Mortality Among Migrants in Western Europe: A Meta-Analysis
Grete Skøtt Pedersen,Grete Skøtt Pedersen,Anders Grøntved,Laust Hvas Mortensen,Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen,Janet W. Rich-Edwards +5 more
TL;DR: Evidence that migrant women in Western European countries have an excess risk of maternal mortality is provided from a random-effects meta-analysis and statistical heterogeneity assessed by the I2 statistic.
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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.