Beyond the burqa: addressing the causes of maternal mortality in Afghanistan
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Valle, Hernan del
Beyond the burqa: addressing the causes of maternal mortality in Afghanistan
Afghanistan has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world,87% of which are considered preventable. Two years after the demise of the Taliban regime there is hardly any improvement.
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Valle, Hernan del
UN Process Indicators: key to measuring maternal mortality reduction
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Meyers, Janet
Lobis, Samantha
Dakkak, Henia
UN Process Indicators: key to measuring maternal mortality reduction
Every year more than half a million women die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth. The World Health Organization, WHO, estimates that 15% of all pregnant women will develop direct obstetric complications. The target of reducing maternal mortality by 75% by 2015 is a key UN Millennium Development Goal.
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Meyers, Janet
Lobis, Samantha
Dakkak, Henia
The challenge of poverty [themanummer]
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Chant, Sylvia
Graham, Wendy J.
May, Julian
[et al.]
The challenge of poverty [themanummer]
In this special issue a move beyond aggregation, snapshots and easy labels to understand poverty more. The shortcomings of conventional analyses of poverty and the complexities involved in conceptualizing it in a more meaningful way is highlighted. Female-headed households clearly are disadvantaged in many countries. It is largely informed by the narrow way in which well-being is defined and statistics gathered in conventional poverty research, which also ignores the important dimension of agency that allows women heads to offset gender discrimination as well as the foregone income from a male partner. The extent to which risks for maternal mortality are unequally distributed among women from different socioeconomic backgrounds is highlighted. A research of household level data reveals that poverty and maternal mortality are strongly associated, highlighting the need to move beyond country averages when assessing development performance.
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Chant, Sylvia
Graham, Wendy J.
May, Julian
[et al.]
Reducing maternal mortality among repatriated populations along the Guatemala-Mexico border
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Alonso, Cristina
Miranda, Laura
Hughes, Sally
[et al.]
Reducing maternal mortality among repatriated populations along the Guatemala-Mexico border
Maternal mortality rates in Guatemala are among the highes in Latin America and highest among indigenous women. The maternal mortality ratio for indigenous women is three times higher than for the non indigenous group.