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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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Maternal early warning systems—Towards reducing preventable maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity through improved clinical surveillance and responsiveness
TL;DR: The available obstetric early warning systems are reviewed and evidence for their use in reducing maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity is presented.
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Sistema de salud de Bolivia
Carmen Ledo,René Soria +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the Bolivian health system, including its structure and organization, its financing sources, its health expenditure, its physical, material and humans resources, its stewardship activities and its health research institutions.
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Effects of improved access to transportation on emergency obstetric care outcomes in Uganda.
TL;DR: Reliable communication and transport services increased access to and utilization of maternal health services, particularly caesarean delivery services, and compared with the neighbouring non-intervention district.
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Community mobilisation and health management committee strengthening to increase birth attendance by trained health workers in rural Makwanpur, Nepal: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial
Joanna Morrison,Kirti Man Tumbahangphe,Bharat Budhathoki,Rishi Neupane,Aman Sen,Kunta Dahal,Rita Thapa,Reema Manandhar,Dharma S Manandhar,Anthony Costello,David Osrin +10 more
TL;DR: This trial will test the effect of community mobilisation through women's groups, and health management committee strengthening, on institutional deliveries and home deliveries attended by trained health workers in Makwanpur District, Nepal.
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Maternal Mortality in the United States - Why Is It Important and What Are We Doing About It?
TL;DR: This presentation will review the trends in maternal mortality along with the efforts some jurisdictions have taken to address this obstetrical tragedy and is reminded that each maternal death is not just an isolated medical event but rather it permanently affects an ever-enlarging circle of society.
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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.