How should we measure maternal mortality in the developing world? A comparison of household deaths and sibling history approaches

OBJECTIVE: A reduction in the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) is one of six health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However, there is no consensus about how to measure MMR in the many countries that do not have complete registration of deaths and accurate ascertainment of cause of death....

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kenneth Hill, Shams El Arifeen, Michael Koenig, Ahmed Al-Sabir, Kanta Jamil, Han Raggers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Subjects:
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862006000300011&lng=en&tlng=en