Measuring maternal mortality: an overview of opportunities and options for developing countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is currently an unprecedented expressed need and demand for estimates of maternal mortality in developing countries. This has been stimulated in part by the creation of a Millennium Development Goal that will be judged partly on the basis of reductions in maternal mortality by 2015.

Methods

Since the launch of the Safe Motherhood Initiative in 1987, new opportunities for data capture have arisen and new methods have been developed, tested and used. This paper provides a pragmatic overview of these methods and the optimal measurement strategies for different developing country contexts.

Results

There are significant recent advances in the measurement of maternal mortality, yet also room for further improvement, particularly in assessing the magnitude a

SUBMITTER: Graham WJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2430703 | biostudies-literature | 2008 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature