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Newborn,
child, and maternal survival
The
Lancet, September 28, 2006
Collection
of articles published by The
Lancet since January 2003 relating to newborn, child, and maternal
survival.
Website: http://www.thelancet.com/collections/neonatal_survival/2006
Maternal
survival series
Making sure women throughout the
world can give birth in a health facility, in the presence of a midwife, is the
best strategy for substantially reducing maternal mortality worldwide, according
to a landmark series of papers. The authors are calling on governments and
donors to prioritise this strategy over alternatives, such as home births with a
relative, traditional birth attendant, community health worker or midwife, to
save the lives of over half a million women who die in pregnancy or childbirth
each year.
The five papers that
form the The Lancet maternal
survival series present the evidence for adopting the health centre strategy
worldwide and detail the action required for its roll-out, including immediate
priorities for governments and donors. The authors warn that without political
commitment and investment into this approach, substantial declines in maternal
mortality are unlikely in the next 10-20 years, and the fifth Millennium
Development Goal—to reduce maternal mortality by 75% by 2015—will not be met.
Maternal survival is closely linked to newborn and child survival, which is the
fourth MDG. The Lancet most
recently covered this in a child survival
special issue. :
http://www.thelancet.com/collections/neonatal_survival_mdg4
Healthy
motherhood: an urgent call to action
Horton R
- (DOI:
10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69389-6) Full
Text
Safe
motherhood initiative: 20 years and counting
Starrs AM
- (DOI:
10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69385-9) Full
Text
Meeting
MDG-5: an impossible dream?
Rosenfield A,
Where
is maternal and child health now?
Lawn JE,
Tinker A, Munjanja SP, Cousens S
- (DOI:
10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69387-2) Full
Text
An
alternative strategy to reduce maternal mortality
Costello A, Azad K,
Barnett S
- (DOI:
10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69388-4) Full
Text
Maternal
mortality: who, when, where, and why
Ronsmans C,
Graham WJ, on behalf of The Lancet Maternal Survival Series steering
group
- (DOI:
10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69380-X)
Summary | Full
Text
Strategies
for reducing maternal mortality: getting on with what
works
Campbell OM, Graham WJ, on
behalf of The Lancet Maternal Survival Series steering group
- (DOI:
10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69381-1)
Summary | Full
Text
Going
to scale with professional skilled care
Koblinsky M,
Matthews Z, Hussein J, Mavalankar D, Mridha MK,
Anwar I, Achadi E, Adjei S, Padmanabhan P, van
Lerberghe W, on behalf of The Lancet Maternal Survival Series steering
group
- (DOI:
10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69382-3)
Summary | Full
Text
Mobilising
financial resources for maternal health
Borghi J,
Ensor T, Somanathan A, Lissner C, Mills A, on behalf of The
Lancet Maternal Survival Series steering group
- (DOI:
10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69383-5)
Summary | Full
Text
Maternal
health in poor countries: the broader context and a call for
action
Filippi V, Ronsmans C,
Campbell OM, Graham WJ, Mills A, Borghi J, Koblinsky M,
Osrin D
- (DOI:
10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69384-7)
Summary | Full
Text
Worldwide
time trends in the prevalence of symptoms of asthma, allergic
rhinoconjunctivitis, and eczema in childhood:
ISAAC Phases One and Three
repeat multicountry cross-sectional surveys
Asher MI,
Montefort S, Björkstén B, Lai CK, Strachan DP,
Weiland SK, Williams H,
The ISAAC Phase Three Study
Group
- 26 August 2006
(Vol. 368, Issue 9537, pages 733-743) Summary | Full
Text
Rotavirus
vaccines: current prospects and future challenges
Glass RI,
Parashar UD, Bresee JS, Turcios R, Fischer TK,
Widdowson MA, Jiang B, Gentsch JR
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22 July 2006 (Vol. 368, Issue 9532,
pages 323-332) Summary | Full
Text
Effect
of timing of umbilical cord clamping on iron status in Mexican infants: a
randomised controlled trial
Chaparro CM,
Neufeld LM, Tena Alavez G, Eguia-Líz Cedillo R,
Dewey KG
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17 June 2006
(Vol. 367, Issue 9527, pages 1997-2004) Summary | Full
Text
Child
health in armed conflict: time to rethink
10 June 2006 (Vol. 367, Issue 9526,
pages 1886-1888) Full
Text
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other articles in this collection:
• Articles published
in 2005
• Articles published
in 2004
• Articles published
in 2003
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