Verbal autopsy (VA) methods are designed to collect cause-of-death information from
populations where many deaths occur outside of health facilities and where death …

Global health metrics come into being in complex circumstances. Through ethnography that
focuses closely on the forces driving uneven obstetric case reporting in a government …

Abstract The Global Strategy for Women's Children's and Adolescents' Health emphasizes
accountability as essential to ensure that decision-makers have the information required to …

In the context of neoliberalism and global austerity measures, health care institutions around
the world confront numerous challenges in attempting to meet the needs of local …

Abstract Objectives Maternal Death Review (MDR) is a continuous effort of identification,
notification, and review of maternal deaths for possible causes followed by actions to …

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is iconic in the landscape of Indian
healthcare. Established in the early years of independence, this enormous public teaching …

Anthropologists have been interested in maternal mortality since the early days of the global
Safe Motherhood movement. Maternal death is a culmination of structural and social issues …

Since the Safe Motherhood Initiative's (SMI) launch in 1987, maternal health has emerged
as standalone target for interventions and an important development indicator. This chapter …

Objectives Local reviews of the care of women who die in pregnancy and post-birth should
be undertaken. We investigated the quantity and quality of hospital reviews. Design …

This chapter analyzes the idiom of “wind disorders”(rlung) in the Zangskar region of the
Western Himalayas to illustrate how an illness episode—from disease through diagnosis …