Maternal mortality studies--time to stop?

Maternal and neonatal mortality: time to act.

h 4 c Maternal, infant, and neonatal mortality rate are benchmarks for maternal/infant care and the health of a society in general. Global efforts to reduce these mortality rates have been led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations; the rates have decreased substantially worldwide, but the ambitious reductions set forth by the Millennium Development Goals have not been ac...

Maternal mortality: it's time to get political.

Nigeria has the 47th highest gross domestic product (GDP) worldwide and is the world’s 8th largest exporter of petroleum. It has a maternal mortality ratio (MMR) of 800/100 000 live births. In contrast, Sri Lanka is 78th on the GDP list but has an MMR of only 92. Among the wealthy countries, Sweden has the 20th highest GDP and a MMR of 2, while USA, despite being the richest country in the worl...

Probability Distribution Fitting to Maternal Mortality in Nigeria.

The consequences of Maternal Mortality (MM) cannot be overemphasized. It inhibits population growth resulting into loss of lives among others. This work tends to obtain the maternal mortality rates (MMR) in Nigeria, identify some fitted distributions to MMR and determine which of the distributions best fits the data. A comprehensive Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) was carried on MM and the MMRs...

Postpartum Hemorrhage Causes Maternal Mortality

Anaesthetic contribution to maternal mortality.

The Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths in England and Wales are unique in British medicine in that they appraise systematically the results of medical work. The original enquiry was started in 1928, but was completely revised in 1952, since when there have been 10 reports covering a period of 30 years. Each maternal death is reviewed carefully to ascertain if additional or different ac...