Abstract Background Achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of improving
maternal health has become a focus in recent times for the majority of countries in sub …

In 2003, the World Health Organization published its well referenced handbook Safe
Abortion: Technical and Policy Guidance for Health Systems to address the estimated …

The present study identifies the prevalence, pattern & geographical distribution of pregnancy
loss and its various determinants. The choropleth equal interval maps and local indicators of …

Each year an estimated 515000 women die of complications of pregnancy and childbirth, 7
million more suffer serious health problems and 50 million suffer adverse health effects …

Abstract Worldwide, an estimated 68,000 women die yearly due to unsafe abortion
practices. In Liberia, the maternal mortality ratio is 1072 deaths per 100,000 live births …

Background: Ensuring that all women have access to emergency obstetric care (EmOC) in
the event of a complication is vital. One well-accepted conceptual model suggests that the …

Background: Abortion legislation in Chile is among the most restrictive in the world, with
abortion being illegal without exception. However, while abortion remains completely illegal …

The main objective of this research is to analyse critically the methodology used by the
Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group (MMEIG) to estimate maternal mortality in …

This chapter focuses on what might be the ultimate challenge in human resources for health:
currently there are more pregnancy-associated deaths than all deaths from AIDS, malaria …

Besides the usual socioeconomic and demographic explanatory factors, this research
incorporates self efficacy and displacement related factors to understand and explain the …