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Maternal mortality: levels, causes and promising interventions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2011

Barbara E. Kwast
Barbara E. Kwast
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Maternal and Child Health Unit, World Health Organization, Geneva
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About two-thirds of the world's population live in areas where registration of vital statistics is unsatisfactory (Tietze, 1977), and in many countries such statistics from rural areas are unavailable or grossly underestimated (WHO, 1971). Most of the women who die in pregnancy and childbirth are poor and live in remote areas or city slums. Their deaths are accorded little importance and fail to enter registers.

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Factors affecting mortality
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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 21 , supplement S10: Health Interventions and Mortality Change in Developing Countries , 1989 , pp. 51 - 67
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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