Background Nearly 15% of pregnancies end in fatal perinatal obstetric complications
including bleeding, infections, hypertension, obstructed labour and complications of …

Violent conflicts claim lives, disrupt livelihoods, and halt delivery of essential services, such
as health care and education. Health systems are often devastated in conflicts as health …

Executive summary In any setting, women who develop severe acute complications during
pregnancy share many pathological and circumstantial factors. While some of these women …

Introduction Despite the international emphasis in the last few years on the need to address
the unmet health needs of pregnant women and children, progress in reducing maternal …

Primary health care was ratified as the health policy of WHO member states in 1978. 1
Participation in health care was a key principle in the Alma-Ata Declaration. In developing …

Efforts to improve the lives of women and children around the world have intensified since
world leaders adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration in September 2000 and …

" The original targets for these Goals were a two-thirds reduction in the mortality of children
under 5 and a three-quarters reduction in the maternal mortality ratio between 1990 and …

Objectives. We fielded a population-based discrete choice experiment (DCE) in rural
western Tanzania, where only one third of women deliver children in a health facility, to …

Background The use of maternal health care is limited in India despite several programmatic
efforts for its improvement since the late 1980's. The use of maternal health care is typically …

The quality of care received by mothers and babies in developing countries is often reported
as poor. Yet efforts to address this contributory factor to maternal and newborn mortality …