Reducing maternal mortality: a review of progress and evidence-based strategies to achieve millennium development goal 5
Sullivan, T.R.; Hirst, J.E.
Health Care for Women International 32(10): 901-916
2011
ISSN/ISBN: 0739-9332 PMID: 21919627 DOI: 10.1080/07399332.2011.603867Document Number: 227939
Maternal mortality represents a major global health challenge. Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG 5) set a range of targets pertaining to maternal mortality and universal access to reproductive health care. While the realization of these targets seems unlikely, cost-effective population-level approaches in combination with evidence-based interventions targeting the acute management of the major causes of maternal mortality present the potential for considerable progress as the 2015 deadline approaches.