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Estimating maternal mortality: what have we learned from 16 years of surveys in Afghanistan?
- Source :
- BMJ Global Health, Vol 5, Iss 5 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- BMJ Publishing Group, 2020.
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Abstract
- Summary box ‘Particularly hard hit by Afghanistan's 23 years of war, civil strife and Taliban misrule are Afghan women, who are experiencing what health officials call ''catastrophic'' death rates associated with pregnancy and childbirth’.1 The opening paragraph of this 2002 New York Times article captures how women’s health became, and still is, a cornerstone of development aid in Afghanistan. As a result, maternal health measurements have become an important tool for ‘evidence-based advocacy’,2 as in many other countries grappling with poor maternal health. Maternal mortality estimates in particular, have played a major role in justifying external assistance to the Afghan healthcare system1 and in documenting maternal health improvements as a legacy of the 2001 intervention and successive foreign involvement in the country.3 Sixteen years later, we …
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Medicine (General)
Infectious and parasitic diseases
RC109-216
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Afghan
R5-920
Surveys and Questionnaires
Intervention (counseling)
Political science
Health care
Epidemiology
medicine
Humans
Childbirth
030212 general & internal medicine
Pregnancy
business.industry
030503 health policy & services
Health Policy
Mortality rate
Afghanistan
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
medicine.disease
Maternal Mortality
Family medicine
Development aid
0305 other medical science
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20597908
- Volume :
- 5
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BMJ Global Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8aee6beab5445d0ea87b902da76c2360