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  Poverty, child undernutrition and morbidity: new evidence from India

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2005

  This paper, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, examines how the prevalence of undernutrition in children is measured. The authors construct a composite index of anthropometric failure (CIAF), based on three indicators of undernutrition: underweight, stunting and wasting.
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  Postpartum maternal morbidity requiring hospital admission in Lusaka, Zambia: a descriptive study

  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2005

  This article from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth reports on a study which examined health services data on maternal morbidity (ill-health due to complications) during the postpartum (post-birth) period in Lusaka, Zambia. The authors undertook a four-week study of postpartum hospital admissions. This was accompanied by a review of hospital registers from the previous six months.
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  Into good hands: progress reports from the field (a companion to the Maternal Mortality Update 2004)

  United Nations Population Fund, 2004

  This booklet, a companion to the Maternal Mortality Update 2004, documents research and interventions to improve skilled care at birth throughout the developing world.
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  Maternal mortality update 2004

  United Nations Population Fund, 2004

  Since 1998, the Maternal Mortality Update, a biannual publication of UNFPA, has documented strategies, partnerships and projects for reducing maternal mortality and morbidity in the developing world. This year's update focuses on the importance of skilled attendance at birth for improving maternal health, which is one of the eight Millennium Development Goals.
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  Gender and health sector reform: analytical perspectives on African experience

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2004

  This paper draws upon these established themes in the literature on gender and health to explore perspectives on the gendered impacts of Health Sector Reforms (HSRs), with particular reference to African experience.
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  World Health Report 2005 (chapter 5): newborns no longer going unnoticed

  World Health Organization, 2005

  This chapter from the 2005 World Health Report focuses on newborn health. Each year, 4 million babies die in the first 28 days of life (the neonatal period). In addition, nearly 3.3 million babies are stillborn.
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  The World Health Report 2005: make every mother and child count

  World Health Organization, 2005

  The 2005 World Health Report calls for a change of focus in maternal and child health programmes, and for more attention to be given to the often overlooked problems of newborns. It also notes that increasingly, access to quality care for mothers and children is being seen as a right. The report recognises that demand for antenatal care has increased in most parts of the world.
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  The evidence for emergency obstetric care

  Elsevier, 2004

  Published in the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, this article examines evidence for the effectiveness of emergency obstetric care (EmOC) in reducing maternal mortality, focusing on nine studies of varying design. A quasi-experimental study in Matlab, Bangladesh reveals a 50 per cent reduction in maternal mortality once EmOc services were introduced into an intervention area.
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  What can a meta-analysis tell us about traditional birth attendant training and pregnancy outcomes?

  Elsevier, 2004

  This article from the journal Midwifery examines existing research on the effectiveness of training traditional birth attendants (TBAs) in developing countries. Findings suggest that training has a substantial impact on the knowledge, behaviour and attitude of the TBA as well as on the advice they are able to give.
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  Strategies for reducing maternal mortality in developing countries: what can we learn from the history of the industrialized West?

  Tropical Medicine & International Health, 1998

  This paper from Tropical Medicine & International Health notes that after ten years of the Safe Motherhood Initiative, maternal mortality ratios in many developing countries remain similar to those of industrialised countries in the early twentieth century. The authors identify conditions in which industrialised countries reduced maternal mortality over the past 100 years.

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