Monitoring progress in reducing maternal mortality using verbal autopsy methods in vital registration systems: what can we conclude about specific causes of maternal death?

What Can We Conclude from Death Registration? Improved Methods for Evaluating Completeness

BACKGROUND One of the fundamental building blocks for determining the burden of disease in populations is to reliably measure the level and pattern of mortality by age and sex. Where well-functioning registration systems exist, this task is relatively straightforward. Results from many civil registration systems, however, remain uncertain because of a lack of confidence in the completeness of d...

Postpartum Hemorrhage Causes Maternal Mortality

Are we making progress in maternal mortality?

n engl j med 364;21 nejm.org may 26, 2011 1990 resent a diverse genetic pool that allows for adaptation and evolutionary change. Further insight into how these adaptations occur may enhance our ability to predict the emergence of new, more capable bacterial pathogens, the development of more predictive animal models, and the potential identification of critical pathways that might serve as ther...

Causes of Maternal Mortality in Iran: A Systematic Review

Background Maternal death is a key qualitative reliable index of a nation’s economic development. The present research aims to investigate causes of maternal mortality in Iran. Materials and Methods A systematic review of the following databases led us to find the target articles: Medline (via PubMed), Science Direct, CINAHL, CINAHL (EBSCO), Scopus, Web of Science, SID, ISC, Magiran, and Goog...

What you count is what you target: the implications of maternal death classification for tracking progress towards reducing maternal mortality in developing countries.

The first target of the fifth United Nations Millennium Development Goal is to reduce maternal mortality by 75% between 1990 and 2015. This target is critically off track. Despite difficulties inherent in measuring maternal mortality, interventions aimed at reducing it must be monitored and evaluated to determine the most effective strategies in different contexts. In some contexts, the direct ...