Maternal mortality at the end of a decade: signs of progress?

ABSTRACT: Maternal mortality is an important measure of women’s health and indicative of the performance of health care systems. Several international conferences, most recently the Millennium Summit in 2000, have included the goal of reducing maternal mortality. However, monitoring progress towards...

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Main Authors: Carla AbouZahr, Tessa Wardlaw
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862001000600013&lng=en&tlng=en