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Volume 11 Supplement 2

Quality of Care in Maternal and Child Health

Reviews

Edited by Tarek Meguid

The publication costs for this supplement were funded by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the Maternal Health Task Force at the Harvard School of Public Health. Articles have undergone the journal's standard peer review process for supplements overseen by the Supplement Editor who declares that he has no competing interests.

  1. Despite progress in recent years, an estimated 273,500 women died as a result of maternal causes in 2010. The burden of these deaths is disproportionately bourne by women who reside in low income countries or ...

    Authors: Anne Austin, Ana Langer, Rehana A Salam, Zohra S Lassi, Jai K Das and Zulfiqar A Bhutta
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2014 11(Suppl 2):S1
  2. Annually around 40 million mothers give birth at home without any trained health worker. Consequently, most of the maternal and neonatal mortalities occur at the community level due to lack of good quality car...

    Authors: Zohra S Lassi, Jai K Das, Rehana A Salam and Zulfiqar A Bhutta
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2014 11(Suppl 2):S2
  3. District level healthcare serves as a nexus between community and district level facilities. Inputs at the district level can be broadly divided into governance and accountability mechanisms; leadership and su...

    Authors: Rehana A Salam, Zohra S Lassi, Jai K Das and Zulfiqar A Bhutta
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2014 11(Suppl 2):S3
  4. Most of the maternal and newborn deaths occur at birth or within 24 hours of birth. Therefore, essential lifesaving interventions need to be delivered at basic or comprehensive emergency obstetric care facilit...

    Authors: Jai K Das, Rohail Kumar, Rehana A Salam, Zohra S Lassi and Zulfiqar A Bhutta
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2014 11(Suppl 2):S4
  5. This series of papers focuses on a quality of care framework for maternal health, and systematically reviews the evidence of interventions aimed at improving care at the community-, district- and factility-lev...

    Authors: Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Rehana A Salam, Zohra S Lassi, Anne Austin and Ana Langer
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2014 11(Suppl 2):S5

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    Journal Impact Factor: 3.6
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