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  Safer motherhood 2000: toward a framework for behaviour change to reduce maternal deaths

  Communication Initiative, 2000

  This paper, produced by The Communication Initiative, is intended as a tool to encourage dialogue and generate feedback from qualitative researchers and communication programme planners, who share responsibility for the design and implementation of effective safe motherhood research and communication interventions.
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  The importance of family planning in reducing maternal mortality

  Family Health International, 1995

  This research brief, produced by Family Health International, uses an analysis of data from Bangladesh to demonstrate the impact of family planning on maternal mortality. It finds that, at the national level, family planning reduces the number of pregnancies and births.
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  The importance of women’s status for child nutrition in developing countries

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This report, produced by the International Food Policy Research Institute, explores the relationship between women’s status and children’s nutrition through examination of data in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The results show that women’s status has a positive influence on children’s nutritional status in all three regions.
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  Safe Motherhood Fact Sheets

  Safe Motherhood Inter-Agency Group, 1998

  The Safe Motherhood Initiative is a global partnership of governments, donors, technical agencies, non-governmental organisations and women’s health advocates in more than 100 countries.
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  Reproductive health and health sector reform in developing countries: establishing a framework for dialogue

  World Health Organization, 2002

  This bulletin, produced by the World Health Organisation (WHO), examines factors that limit dialogue on policy-making between the areas of reproductive health and reform of the health sector in developing countries. It proposes a framework for enhancing dialogue and collaboration between the two fields. The constraints on dialogue arise from basic differences between disciplines.
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  Rethinking postpartum health care

  Population Council, USA, 1992

  This report of proceedings, produced by the Population Council, is a summary and synthesis of the papers and discussion from a Population Council invitational seminar entitled “Rethinking postpartum health care”.
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  Human resources and health outcomes Joint Learning Initiative (JLI) Human Resources for Health and Development working paper

  Global Health Trust, 2003

  This paper from the Joint Learning Initiative, Human Resources for Health and Development examines the relationship between health outcomes and human resources for health. The authors find that the cross-country results confirm the importance of human resources for health (HRH) in affecting health outcomes.
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  Progress toward the millennium development goals in Africa

  Department of Economics [Cornell University], 2002

  This study produced by Cornell University analyses demographic and health surveys (DHS) to examine the progress of African countries in achieving six of the seven millennium development goals (MDGs). The evidence suggests that, in the absence of dramatic rates of improvement in most measures of living standards, the MDGs are not going to be reached for most indicators in most countries.
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  Maternal mortality and poverty

  John Snow International UK, 2002

  This paper, produced by the DFID Resource Centre for Sexual and Reproductive Health, reviews current literature on the relationship between maternal mortality and poverty.
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  Understanding the 'demand side' in service delivery: definitions, frameworks and tools from the health sector

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2004

  This DFID Health Systems Resource Centre paper examines the different understandings of ‘demand side’ in literature, operational and policy perspectives and in international agencies. It maps out the different ways in which demand side issues have been defined in the health sector context of low and middle-income countries.

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