Reducing maternal mortality in the developing world: sector-wide approaches may be the key

In the long term, sustaining affordable improvements in safe motherhood depends on improving the functioning of health systems as a whole. Gains made in countries such as Malaysia and Sri Lanka were achieved by making maternity care a priority that guided changes in health services. Efforts to achie...

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Published in:BMJ 2001-04, Vol.322 (7291), p.917-920
Main Authors: Goodburn, Elizabeth, Campbell, Oona
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Cause of Death
Death
Delivery. Postpartum. Lactation
Developing Countries
Education And Debate
Female
Financing, Organized
Funding
Gynecology. Andrology. Obstetrics
Health care
Health Promotion - economics
Health Promotion - organization & administration
Humans
International development
LDCs
Maternal Health Services - economics
Maternal Health Services - organization & administration
Maternal Mortality
Maternal mortality rates
Maternal, fetal and perinatal monitoring
Medical sciences
Mortality
Motherhood
Obstetrics
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications - economics
Pregnancy Complications - prevention & control
Psychoeducational intervention
Reduction
Reproductive health
Reproductive Medicine - economics
Reproductive Medicine - organization & administration
Womens health
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Summary:In the long term, sustaining affordable improvements in safe motherhood depends on improving the functioning of health systems as a whole. Gains made in countries such as Malaysia and Sri Lanka were achieved by making maternity care a priority that guided changes in health services. Efforts to achieve similar gains in other developing countries need pragmatic support.
ISSN:0959-8138
0959-8146
0959-535X
1468-5833
1756-1833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.322.7291.917