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C AbouZahr

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PubMed1996

Maternal mortality.

A new approach to measuring maternal mortality indicates that there are some 585,000 maternal deaths, 99% of them in developing countries. This is around 80,000 deaths more than earlier estimates have suggested and indicates a substantial underestimation of maternal mortality in the past. There is a greater disparity in levels of maternal mortality between industrialized and developing countries than in any other public health indicator. While significant progress has been made in reducing infant mortality, the same is not true for maternal mortality. Although the actions needed to reduce maternal mortality have long been known, 1 woman in 50 is still dying as a result of pregnancy-related complications and the figure rises to 1 in 10 in many parts of Africa. By contrast, the figure for developed countries can be as low as 1 in 8,000.

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PubMed1994

Safe motherhood.

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Quality health care for women: a global challenge.

This paper discusses barriers to the provision of high quality care from the perspectives of the health system and female clients, and interventions that have been developed to overcome these barriers. These interventions are in the area of reproductive health, where most attention to women's health has focused; they consist mainly of assessment tools that can be used by peripheral health workers and rural women themselves. The paper argues that in nonreproductive health generally, there is a dearth of information on the biological and social determinants and consequences of infection and disease from a gender perspective. Recommendations are made for further research on quality of care and for practical interventions with application to women's health, both within and outside the reproductive context.

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