Improve maternal health

Target

Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio

Health indicators

Maternal mortality ratio
Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel

Target

To achieve universal access to reproductive health by 2015

Recommended reading

State of the World’s Mothers Report: ( Save the Children Fund , 2007); This Save the Children publication reports on child mortality rates in developing countries. The report includes Child Survival Progress Rankings of 60 countries, which together account for 94 per cen...
Estimated global resources needed to attain universal coverage of maternal and newborn health services: ( B. Johns; K. Sigurbjornsdottir; H. Fogstad / Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health , 2007); This paper in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates the amount of additional resources that are needed to scale up maternal and newborn health services in order to reach the M...
Who's got the power: transforming health systems for women and children 2005: ( L.P. Freedman; R.J. Waldman; H. de Pinho / Millennium Project , 2005); Recommended reading; This report, produced by the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Maternal Health and Child Health, outlines challenges in maternal and child health around the world, and considers key interventions to...
The right to count: ( W. Graham; J. Hussein / The Lancet , 2004); This case report, published in the Lancet, examines the issue of under-reporting of maternal deaths in developing countries, and considers the implications for the UN Millennium Goal target of reducti...
Mobilising financial resources for maternal health: ( J. Borghi; T. Ensor; A. Somanathan / The Lancet , 2006); This paper is part of a Lancet series of articles about maternal survival. It begins by making the case for investment in maternal health and then considers how financial resources can be channeled to...
Public choices, private decisions: sexual and reproductive health and the Millennium Development Goals: ( S. Bernstein; C.J. Hansen / Millennium Project , 2006); Recommended reading; This report, published by the UN Millennium Project, examines the global burden of diseases and risks related to sexual and reproductive health (SRH), analyses the implications for the Millennium Deve...