Background Maternal mortality continues to be of great public health importance, however
for each woman who dies as the direct or indirect result of pregnancy, many more women …

Background Global efforts to increase births at health-care facilities might not reduce
maternal or newborn mortality if quality of care is insufficient. However, little systematic …

Background The reduction in maternal mortality worldwide has increased the interest in
studying more frequent severe events such as maternal near miss. The Human …

Background Maternal mortality is among the most important public health concerns in Sub-
Saharan Africa. There is limited data on hospital-based maternal mortality in Tanzania. The …

Background The huge proportion of child marriage contributes to high rates of pregnancies
among adolescent girls in Bangladesh. Despite substantial progress in reducing maternal …

Background In Ethiopia, 20,000 women die each year from complications related to
pregnancy, childbirth and post-partum. For every woman that dies, 20 more experience …

Objectives To identify the determinants of institutional delivery among young married women
in Nepal. Design Nepal Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) data sets 2011 were …

Introducción: La Morbilidad Materna Extrema (MME) es un estado en el cual la gestante casi
muere durante su gestación, parto o puerperio pero sobrevivió gracias a una atención …

Background A maternal near-miss (MNM) refers to when a gravely ill woman survives a
complication as a result of the standard of care she receives or by chance during gestation …

Background Investigating cases of severe maternal morbidity (SMM) and severe maternal
outcome (SMO) and the quality of maternal health care using near-miss approach has …