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Maternal and Infant Deaths: Chasing Millenium Development Goals 4 and 5
Posted: Tuesday Jul 20, 2010
Immpact researchers have authored two chapters in this recently released book in the RCOG Study Group series.
Graham, W.; Bell, J.; Fitzmaurice, A.; Neal, S.; Qomariyah, S.N.; Mathews, Z. The geography of maternal death in Kehoe, S.; Neilson, J.P.; Norman, J.E. (eds.) Maternal and Infant Deaths: Chasing Millenium Development Goals 4 and 5. RCOG Press, 2010.
- This chapter, in Section 1 of the book 'The size of the problem', highlights the importance of paying attention to where women die when it comes to counting maternal deaths and acting upon that information to improve maternal outcomes in developing countries.
Hussein, J.; Walker, L. Puerperal sepsis in low- and middle- income settings: past, present and future in Kehoe, S.; Neilson, J.P.; Norman, J.E. (eds.) Maternal and Infant Deaths: Chasing Millenium Development Goals 4 and 5. RCOG Press, 2010.
- This chapter, in Section 2 of the book, 'Clinical problems and solutions - maternal', summarises current knowledge of puerperal sepsis and draws on lessons from the past to idenitfy strategies for progress in reducing this neglected but important cause of maternal death.
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