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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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Accounting emergy-based sustainability of crops production in India and Pakistan over first decade of the 21st century
Mustafa Ali,Mustafa Ali,Antonino Marvuglia,Yong Geng,Dawn Robins,Hengyu Pan,Xiaoqian Song,Zhongjue Yu,Huaping Sun +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the drivers and consequences of changes in crop production sustainability in India and Pakistan from an emergy-based perspective, from 2001 to 2011, and found that the production efficiency in India was greater than that in Pakistan.
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Maternal mortality in rural south Ethiopia: outcomes of community-based birth registration by health extension workers.
TL;DR: The MMR was high in rural south Ethiopia and most births and maternal deaths occurred at home, so it is possible to obtain a high-coverage birth registration and measure MMR in rural communities where a functional system of community health workers exists.
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Female health workers at the doorstep: a pilot of community-based maternal, newborn, and child health service delivery in northern Nigeria.
TL;DR: Community-based service delivery through a resident female community health worker can increase health service utilization in rural, hard-to-reach areas in Nigeria.
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National maternal mortality ratio for Jordan, 2007–2008
TL;DR: The number of maternal deaths per 100 000 live births during 2007–2008 among Jordanian women and the causes of maternal mortality are compared with those of the last report for 1995–1996.
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Development of the Community Midwifery Education initiative and its influence on women's health and empowerment in Afghanistan: a case study.
TL;DR: The Community Midwifery Education programme is considered by stakeholders to be a positive model for promoting women’s education, employment, and health in Afghanistan, but its future is threatened by insecurity, corruption, lack of regulation, and funding uncertainties.
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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.