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Index][Thread Index] [afro-nets] Trends in maternal mortality:
1990 to 2008 - Estimates developed by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and The
World Bank (2) - From: "Ikuo Takizawa."
<Takizawa.Ikuo@jica.go.jp> - Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:45:30
+0900 Owing to the UN Millennium Summit, health indicators such
as maternal mortality and child mortality are now center of
attention. As a public health practitioner, I appreciate the
commitment of the global leaders, including our own (linked
below), in mobilizing resources for the health of mothers and
children, even though we need continued advocacy and monitoring.
While we are all concerned about the numbers to tell us where we
are in the achievement of MDGs, it seems we have two different
sets of trend estimate for both maternal mortality and child
mortality, i.e., the one by inter-agency group of international
organizations and another set by Institute for Health Metrics
and Evaluation (IHME), the University of Washington. I