Maternal mortality in the developed world: lessons from the UK confidential enquiry

Maternal health in pregnancy: messages from the 2014 UK Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Death.

The confidential enquiry into maternal and child health (CEMACH).

T he Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH) was established in April 2003. It replaces CESDI (the Confidential Enquiry intoStillbirthsandDeathsinInfancy)and CEMD (the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths); this gives it a truly perinatal focus, but its remit is now wider and includes all childhood death. This paper reviews the history of confidential enquiries, some o...

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

Lessons for the past: Third World evidence and the reinterpretation of developed world mortality declines

Measles is the largest single killing infection of children in the world, and it is likely that its toll is heightened by the occurrence of a serious delayed effect of early infection. Variations in measles mortality, and in the seriousness of infection, have often been explained in terms of nutritional factors, but intercountry comparisons within the Third World fail to bear this out. In this ...

third world intellectuals in v. s. naipaul’s fiction: the mimic men, a bend in the river, magic seeds

this thesis attempts to study the representations of the third-world intellectuals in three fictional works by the british-educated trinidadian nobel-winner v. s. naipaul: the mimic men, a bend in the river, and magic seeds. the first one recounts the story of ralph singh’s sense of alienation, his experiences as a colonial politician, and his struggle to give order to his disorderly world thro...