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towards MDG5: Explaining the reduction in maternal deaths in Bangladesh
Towards 4+5 Briefing Paper, Chowdhury ME, Wolfe R, Ahmed
A, Haque NA, Quaiyum MA.
A new Towards 4+5 Briefing Paper identifies the factors that have contributed to the decline in maternal mortality in Bangladesh between 1976 and 2005. It also shows actions that are needed to further reduce maternal mortality.
2010
Journal articles | Briefing papers | Working papers | Presentations
Journal articles
Azad K, Barnett S, Banerjee B, Shaha S, Khan K, Rego AR, Barua S, Flatman D, Pagel C, Prost A, Ellis M, Costello A. Effect of scaling up women's groups on birth outcomes in three rural districts in Bangladesh: a cluster-randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2010 Apr 3;375(9721):1193-202
Borghi J, Sabina N, Ronsmans C, Killewo J. The cost of home versus facility-based obstetric care in rural Bangladesh. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition 2010 (In press)
Fottrell E, Kanhonou L, Goufodji S, Behague DP, Marshall T, Patel V and Filippi V. Risk of psychological distress following severe obstetric complications in Benin: the role of economics, physical health and spousal abuse. The British Journal of Psychiatry. (2010) 196, 18–25
Filippi V, Goufodji, S, Sismanidis C, Kanhonou L, Fottrell E, Ronsmans C, Alihonou E, Patel V. Effects of severe obstetric complications on women's health and infant mortality in Benin. Forthcoming in Tropical Medicine and International Health.
Lawn JE, Bahl R, Bergstrom S, Bhutta ZA, Darmstadt GL, Ellis M, English M, Hofmeyr GJ, Kurinczuk J, Lee AC, Merialdi M, Mohamed M, Osrin D, Pattinson R, Paul V, Ramji S, Saugstad O, Sibley L, Singhal N, Wall SN, Woods D, Wyatt J, Chan KY, Rudan I (forthcoming). Setting research priorities to reduce one million deaths from 'birth asphyxia' by 2015. PLoS Med.
Magoma M, Requejo J, Campbell OMR, Cousens S and Filippi V. High ANC coverage and low skilled attendance in a rural Tanzanian district: a case for implementing a birth plan intervention. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2010, 10:13
Manandhar SR, Ojha A, Manandhar DS, Shrestha B, Shrestha D, Saville N, Costello AM, Osrin D. Causes of stillstillbirths and neonatal deaths in Dhanusha District, Nepal: A verbal autopsy study. Kathmandu University Medical Journal 2010, Vol 8, No.1, Issue 29, 1-5
McCoy D, Storeng K, Filippi V, Ronsmans C, Osrin D, Borchert M, Campbell OM, Roques A, Wolfe R, Prost A, Hill Z (forthcoming). Scaling up maternal, neonatal and child health interventions: moving from knowledge to policies and systems that deliver. Int Health.
Morrison J, Thapa R, Hartley S, Osrin D, Manandhar M, Tumbahangphe K, Neupane R, Budhathoki B, Sen A, Pace N, Manandhar DS, Costello A (2010). Understanding how women's groups improve maternal and newborn health in Makwanpur, Nepal: a qualitative study. Int Health 2, 25-35.
Morrison J, Thapa R, Sen A, Neupane R, Borghi J, Tumbahangphe KM, Osrin D, Manandhar D, Costello A (2010). Utilization and management of maternal and child health funds in rural Nepal. Community Development J 45: 75-89.
Nair N, Tripathy P, Prost A, Costello A, Osrin D (2010). Improving Newborn Survival in Low-Income Countries: Community-Based Approaches and Lessons from South Asia. PLoS Med 7(4): e1000246. doi:10.1371/ journal.pmed.1000246
Osrin D (forthcoming). The implications of late-preterm birth for global child survival. Int J Epidemiol.
Osrin D, Prost A (forthcoming). Perinatal interventions and survival in resource-poor settings: which work; which don't; which have the jury out? Arch Dis Child.
Ronsmans C, Chowdhury ME, Koblinsky M, Ahmed A. Care seeking at time of birth and maternal and perinatal mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh. Bulletin WHO 2010, 88:289-296
Storeng K, Murray S, Akoum M, Ouattara F, Filippi V. Beyond body counts: a qualitative study of lives and loss in Burkina Faso after “near miss” obstetric complications. Forthcoming in Social Sciences and Medicine.
Briefing papers
Improving birth outcomes in poor, rural communities: the role of women's groups in Nepal, Bangladesh and India. April 2010. Towards 4+5 Briefing paper number 5
Ethical challenges in cluster randomised controlled trials. April 2010. Towards 4+5 Briefing paper number 6
Maternal near-miss: a valuable concept for improving safe motherhood in low income countries. May 2010. Towards 4+5 Briefing paper number 7
Working papers
Hanson K and Powell-Jackson T. 2010. Financial Incentives for Maternal Health: Impact Evaluation of a National Programme in Nepal Social Science Research Network
Presentations given at the Towards 4+5 conference, May 2010
Mortality trends in Malawi (Charles Mwansambo, MaiMwana)
Causes of maternal mortality decline in Matlab, Bangladesh (Elahi Chowdhury, ICDDR,B)
Women's groups, community mobilisation and maternal and child health (Anthony Costello, UCL)
Newhints trial: evaluating a community based intervention to reduce neonatal deaths in rural Ghana (Charlotte Tawiah, Kintampo Health Research Centre)
The impact of TBA resuscitation training on early neonatal mortality in Bangladesh (Kishwar Azad, BADAS)
Using community health volunteers to treat newborns with sepsis (Dharma Manandhar, MIRA)
Financial incentives and free delivery care in Nepal (Tim Powell-Jackson, LSHTM)
Effectiveness of facility-based audits to improve the responsiveness of West African district hospitals to obstetric emergencies (Nicolas Meda, Centre Muraz)
The effectiveness of antenatal birth plans in increasing skilled care at delivery and after delivery in rural Tanzania (Moke Magoma, LSHTM)
Does vitamin A supplementation of women of reproductive age have a role to play? (Betty Kirkwood, LSHTM)
Studying the impact of multiple micronutrient supplementation during pregnancy, Dhanusha Trial (Anjana Vaidya, MIRA)
Food
security in households with new babies and food price changes in Dhanusha,
Nepal (Bhim Shrestha, MIRA)
Multiple micronutrient supplementation during pregnancy in low-income countries (Carine Ronsmans, LSHTM)
Evidence-based policy-making in maternal health (Dominique Behague, LSHTM)
A new database of interventions to improve maternal and newborn survival (Erin Anastasi, LSHTM)
Shahjadpur Integrated Maternal and Neonatal Health (MNH) Project (Nafis Al Haque, ICDDR,B)
Maternal, neonatal and child health interventions and services: Moving from knowledge of what works to systems that deliver (David McCoy, UCL)
2009
Journal articles
Behague D, Tawiah C, Rosato M, Some T, Morrison J. 2009. Evidence-based policy-making: the implications of globally-applicable research for context-specific problem-solving in developing countries. Soc Sci Med. 2009 Nov;69(10):1539-46
Chowdhury ME, Ahmed A, Kalim N, Koblinsky M. 2009. Causes of Maternal Mortality Decline in Matlab, Bangladesh Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 27(2)
Cousens S, Blencowe H, Gravett M, Lawn JE. 2009. Antibiotics for pre-term pre-labour rupture of membranes: prevention of neonatal deaths due to complications of preterm birth and infection. International Journal of Epidemiology. 2010, 39 (Supplement 1): i134–i143.
Darmstadt GL, Lee ACC, Cousens S, Sibley L, Bhutta ZA, Donnay F, Osrin D, Bang A, Kumar V, Wall S, Baqui A, Lawn JE (2009). 60 million non-facility births: who can deliver in community settings to reduce intrapartum-related deaths? Int J Gynecol Obstet 107 Suppl 1: S89-S112.
Gabrysch S, Campbell OM.. 2009. Still too far to walk: literature review of the determinants of delivery service use BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2009 Aug 11;9:34
Grigulis A, Prost A, Osrin D (2009). The lives of Malawian nurses: the stories behind the statistics. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 103: 1195-1196.
Filippi V, Richard F, Lange I, Ouattara F. 2009. Identifying
barriers from home to the appropriate hospital through near-miss audits
in developing countries
Best Practice and Research Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 23:
389-400
Lee AC, Lawn JE, Cousens S, Kumar V, Osrin D, Bhutta ZA, Wall SN, Nandakumar AK, Syed U, Darmstadt G (2009). Linking families and facilities for care at birth: what works to avert intrapartum-related deaths. Int J Gynecol Obstet 107 Suppl 1: S65-S88.
Hill ZE, Tawiah-Agyemang C, Kirkwood B. The context of informal abortions in rural Ghana. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2009 Dec;18(12):2017-22.
Margetts BM, Fall CH, Ronsmans C, Allen LH, Fisher DJ, Maternal Micronutrient Supplementation Study Group (2009). Multiple micronutrient supplementation during pregnancy in low-income countries: review of methods and characteristics of studies included in the meta-analyses. Food Nutr Bull 30(4):S517-526.
Newton S, Doku V, Geissler W, Asante KP, Cousens, S. 2009. Drawing blood from young children: lessons learned from a trial in Ghana Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 103(5):497-499
Osrin D, Azad K, Fernandez A, Manandhar DS, Mwansambo CW, Tripathy P, Costello AM (2009). Ethical challenges in cluster randomized controlled trials: experiences from public health interventions in Asia and Africa. Bull World Health Organ 87: 772-779.
Powell-Jackson T, Morrison J, Tiwari S, Neupane B, Costello A. 2009. The experiences of districts in implementing a national incentive programme to promote safe delivery in Nepal BMC Health Services Research, 9:97
Powell-Jackson T, Neupane BD, Tiwari S, Tumbahangphe K Manandhar D, Costello A. 2009. The impact of Nepal's national incentive programme to promote safe delivery in the district of Makwanpur Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, 2009; 21:221-49Pagel C, Lewycka S, Colbourn T, Mwansambo C, Meguid
T, Chiudzu G, Utley M, Costello AM. Estimation
of potential effects of improved community-based
drug provision, to augment health-facility strengthening, on maternal
mortality due to post-partum haemorrhage and sepsis in sub-Saharan Africa:
an equity-effectiveness model Lancet, 2009,
Sept 22
Ronsmans C. 2009. Severe
acute maternal morbidity in low income countries
Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology 23:305-316
Ronsmans C, Fisher DJ, Osmond C, Margetts BM, Fall CH. 2009. Multiple micronutrient supplementation during pregnancy in low-income countries: a meta-analysis of effects on stillbirths and on early and late neonatal mortality. Food Nutr Bull. 2009 Dec;30(4)
Scott S, Ronsmans C. The relationship between birth with a health professional and maternal mortality in observational studies: a review of the literature. Tropical Medicine and International Health 2009,14:1-11
Book chapters
Borghi J, Storeng K, Filippi V. 2009. Overview of costs of obstetric care and the economic and social consequences for households Chap 1 in: Richard F, Witter S, De Brouwere V (eds) Reducing financial barriers to obstetric care in low income countries.
Briefing papers
The consequences of severe obstetric complications in Burkina Faso and Benin. April 2009. Towards 4+5 Briefing paper number 3
Progress towards MDG5: explaining the reduction in maternal deaths in Bangladesh. December 2009. Towards 4+5 Briefing paper number 4
2008
Journal articles
Asri Adisasmita, Poppy E Deviany, Fitri Nandiaty, Cynthia
Stanton, and Carine Ronsmans. 2008. Obstetric
near miss and deaths in public and private hospitals in Indonesia.
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 8: 10. Published online 2008 March 12. doi:
Bajracharya BL, Manandhar DS, Baral MR.2008. Hemoglobin status in children in the age group 6 to 60 months. J Nepal Med Assoc. Jan-Mar;45(161):190-5.
Barnett S, Nair N, Tripathy P, Borghi J, Rath S, Costello
A. 2008. A
prospective key informant surveillance system to measure maternal mortality
- findings from indigenous populations in Jharkhand and Orissa, India.
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. Feb 28;8:6.
Bazzano AN, Kirkwood BR et al. 2008. Beyond
symptom recognition: care-seeking for ill newborns in rural Ghana.
Trop Med Int Health 13(1): 123-8.
Béhague DP, Kanhonou LG, Filippi V, Lègonou S, Ronsmans C. 2008. Pierre Bourdieu and transformative agency: a study of how patients in Benin negotiate blame and accountability in the context of severe obstetric events. Sociol Health Illn 30:489-510.
Béhague DP, Storeng KT. 2008. Collapsing the Vertical-Horizontal Divide: An Ethnographic Study of Evidence-Based Policymaking in Maternal Health. American Journal of Public Health 98:644-9.
Bell JS, Ouédraogo M, Ganaba R, Sombié
I, Byass P, Baggaley RF, Filippi V, Fitzmaurice AE, Graham WJ. 2008.
The
epidemiology of pregnancy outcomes in rural Burkina Faso. Tropical
Medicine and International Health, Jul;13 Suppl 1:31-43.
Bhutta ZA, Ahmed T, Black RE, Cousens S, Dewey K, Giugliani E, Haider BA, Kirkwood B, Morris SS, Sachdev HPS, Shekar M. 2008. Maternal and Child Undernutrition 3 - What works? Interventions for maternal and child undernutrition and survival. Lancet 371(9610):417-440.
Bhutta ZA, Ali S, Cousens S, Ali TM, Haider BA, Rizvi A, Okong P, Bhutta
SZ, Black RE. 2008. Alma-Ata:
Rebirth and revision 6 - Interventions to address maternal, newborn,
and child survival: what difference can integrated primary health care
strategies make? Lancet 372:972-989.
Bhutta ZA, Memon ZA, Soofi S, Salat MS, Cousens S, Martines J. 2008.
Implementing community-based perinatal care: results from a pilot study
in rural Pakistan. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 86:452-459.
Darmstadt GL, Walker N, Lawn JE, Bhutta ZA, Haws RA Cousens S. 2008.
Saving
newborn lives in Asia and Africa: cost and impact of phased scale-up
of interventions within the continuum of care. Health Policy and
Planning 23:101-117.
Delvaux T, Konan JP, Aké-Tano O, Gohou-Kouassi V, Bosso PE, Buvé
A, Ronsmans C. 2008 Quality
of antenatal and delivery care before and after the implementation of
a prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission programme in Côte
d'Ivoire. Tropical Medicine and International Health. Aug;13(8):970-9.
Epub 2008 Jun 28.
Edmond KM, Kirkwood BR, Tawiah CA, Owusu-Agyei S. 2008. Impact
of early infant feeding practices on mortality in low birth weight infants
from rural Ghana.
Perinatol 28:438-44.
Edmond KM, Quigley MA, Zandoh C, Danso S, Hurt C, Agyei SO, Kirkwood
BR. 2008. Aetiology
of stillbirths and neonatal deaths in rural Ghana: implications for
health programming in developing countries. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol.
Sep;22(5):430-7.
Fottrell E, Campbell O. 2008. Clinical
perceptions of infectious causes of maternal death, Response to PLoS
Medicine Vol. 5, No. 2, e44, doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.
Hakamies N, Geissler PW, Borchert M. 2008. Providing
reproductive health care to internally displaced persons: barriers experienced
by humanitarian agencies.
Reproductive Health Matters 16: 1-11.
Hill Z, Tawiah-Agyemang C, Odei-Danso S, Kirkwood B. 2008. Informed
consent in Ghana: what do participants really understand? Journal
of Medical Ethics 34 (1): 48-53.
Hill Z, Manu A, Tawiah-Agyemang C, Gyan T, Turner K, Weobong B, Ten
Asbroek AHA and Kirkwood BR. 2008. How did formative research inform
the development of a home-based neonatal care intervention in rural
Ghana? JPerinatol (28) Sup2 S38-45, 2008.
Hurt LS, Alam N, Dieltiens G, Aktar N, Ronsmans C. 2008. Duration
and magnitude of mortality after pregnancy in rural Bangladesh.
International Journal of Epidemiology 37(2):397-404.
Koblinsky M, Anwar I, Mridha MK, Chowdhury ME, Botlero R. 2008. Reducing maternal mortality and improving maternal health: Bangladesh and MDG 5. Journal of Health Population and Nutrition. Sep;26(3):280-94. Review.
McCoy D, Mwansambo C, Costello A, Khan A. 2008. Academic partnerships
between rich and poor countries. Lancet. 2008 Mar 29;371(9618):1055-7.
More NS, Bapat U, Das S, Patil S, Porel M, Vaidya L, Koriya B, Barnett
S, Costello A, Fernandez A, Osrin D. 2008. Cluster-randomised
controlled trial of community mobilisation in Mumbai slums to improve
care during pregnancy, delivery, postpartum and for the newborn.
Trials. Feb 10;9:7.
Ronsmans C, Chowdhury ME, Alam N, Koblinsky M, El Arifeen S. 2008.
Trends
in stillbirths, early and late neonatal mortality in rural Bangladesh:
the role of public health interventions.
Paediatric Perinatal Epidemiology 22:269-79.
Rosato M, Laverack G, Grabman LH, Tripathy P, Nair N, Mwansambo C,
Azad K, Morrison J, Bhutta Z, Perry H, Rifkin S, Costello A. 2008. Community
participation: lessons for maternal, newborn, and child health.
Lancet. 2008 Sep 13;372(9642):962-71.
Storeng KT, Baggaley RF, Ganaba R, Ouattara F, Akoum MS, Filippi V.
2008. Paying
the price: the cost and consequences of emergency obstetric care in
Burkina Faso. Soc Sci Med. 2008 Feb;66(3):545-57. Epub 2007 Dec
3.
Tawiah-Agyemang C, Kirkwood BR, Edmond K, Bazzano A and Hill Z. 2008. Early initiation of breast-feeding in Ghana: barriers and facilitators. JPerinatol (28) Sup2 S46-52.
Vaidya A, Saville N, Shrestha BP, Costello AM, Manandhar DS, Osrin
D. 2008. Effects
of antenatal multiple micronutrient supplementation on children's weight
and size at 2 years of age in Nepal: follow-up of a double-blind randomised
controlled trial.
Lancet. 2008 Feb 9;371(9611):492-9.
Briefing papers
Improving Evidence Based Policymaking in Maternal and Neonatal Health: strategies for Researchers and Policymakers. 2008. Towards 4+5 Briefing paper number 1
Encouraging women to use professional care at childbirth: does Nepal's Safe Delivery Incentive Programme Work? Evidence from the district of Makwanpur. 2008. Towards 4+5 Briefing paper number 2
2007
Almeida MF, Alencar GP, Novaes HMD, Fransa I, Siqueira AAF, Campbell OMR, Schoeps D, Rodrigues LC . 2007. Risk-factors for antepartum fetal deaths in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil Fatores de risco para mortes fetais anteparto no Municapio de Sao Paulo, Brasil. Rev. Saude Publica 41(1):35-43. ISSN 0034-8910.
Baggaley RF, Ganaba R, Filippi V, Kere M, Marshall T, Sombié
I, Storeng KT, Patel V. 2007. Detecting
depression after pregnancy: the validity of the K10 and K6 in Burkina
Faso. Trop Med Int Health. Oct;12(10):1225-9.
Chowdhury ME, Botlero R, Koblinsky M, Saha SK, Dieltiens G, Ronsmans C. 2007. Determinants of reduction in maternal mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh: a 30-year cohort study. Lancet. 2007 Oct 13;370(9595):1320-8.
Collin SM, Anwar I, Ronsmans C .2007. A
decade of inequality in maternity care: antenatal care, professional
attendance at delivery, and caesarean section in Bangladesh (1991-2004).
Int J Equity Health. 2007 Aug 30;6:9.
Costello A, Filippi V, Kubba T, Horton R. 2007. Research challenges to improve maternal and child survival. Lancet 369 (9569): 1240-3.
Edmond KM, Kirkwood B et al. 2007. Effect
of early infant feeding practices on infection-specific neonatal mortality:
an investigation of the causal links with observational data from rural
Ghana.
Am J Clin Nutr 86(4): 1126-31.
Filippi V, Ganaba R, Baggaley RF, Marshall T, Storeng KT, Sombié
I, Ouattara F, Ouedraogo T, Akoum M, Meda N. 2007. Health
of women after severe obstetric complications in Burkina Faso: a longitudinal
study. Lancet. Oct 13;370(9595):1294-5.
Hill Z, Kirkwood B, Kendall C, Adjei E, Arthur P, Agyemang CT. 2007.
Factors
that affect the adoption and maintenance of weekly vitamin A supplementation
among women in Ghana. Public Health Nutr. Aug;10(8):827-33. Epub
2007 Mar 5.
Houweling, T.A.J.; Ronsmans, C.; Campbell, O.M.R.; Kunst, A.E. 2007.
Huge
poor-rich inequalities in maternity care: an international comparative
study of maternity and child care in developing countries. Bulletin
of the World Health Organization 85(10):745-754.
Kabakian-Khasholian T, Campbell OM. 2007. Impact of written information on women's use of postpartum services: a randomised controlled trial. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand. 2007;86(7):793-8.
Karaolis N, Jackson D, Ashworth A, Sanders D, Sogaula N, McCoy D, Chopra
M, Schofield C. 2007. WHO
guidelines for severe malnutrition: are they feasible in rural African
hospitals? Arch Dis Child 92 (3): 198-204.
Lawn JE, Costello A, Mwansambo C, Osrin D. 2007. Countdown
to 2015: will the Millennium Development Goal for child survival be
met? Arch Dis Child 92 (6): 551-6.
Malla KK, Malla T, Manandhar DS. 2007 Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of Mothers Regarding Breastfeeding:A hospital based study. JNPS (Journal of Nepal Pediatric Society) Issue 1, Vol 26 (Jan-June 2007):9-15
Manandhar S, Joshi S, Bajracharya BL, Manandhar DS. 2007. Kangaroo Mother Care at KMCTH , JNPS (Journal of Nepal Pediatric Society) Issue 1, Vol 26 (Jan-June 2007),46-48
Nahar J, Zabeen B, Akhter S, Azad K, Nahar N. 2007. Neonatal morbidity and mortality pattern in SCABU of BIRDEM. Ibrahim Medical College Journal 1 (2):1-4.
Nambiar B, Lewycka S, Mwansambo C, Costello A. 2007. Planning
health care in developing countries. Anaesthesia. Dec;62 Suppl 1:5-10.
Review.
Nkonki LL, Doherty TM, Hill Z, Chopra M, Schaay N, Kendall C. 2007. Missed opportunities for participation in prevention of mother to child transmission programmes: Simplicity of nevirapine does not necessarily lead to optimal uptake, a qualitative study. AIDS Res Ther 4: 27.
Sibley LM, Blum LS, Kalim N, Hruschka D, Edmonds JK, Koblinsky M. 2007.
Women's
descriptions of postpartum health problems: preliminary findings from
Matlab, Bangladesh. J Midwifery Womens Health. 2007 Jul-Aug;52(4):351-60.
Sombie I, Kambou T, Conombo SD, Sankara O, Ouedraogo L, Zoungrana T, Hounton S, Meda N. 2007. Bilan retrospectif des fistules urognitales obstricales de 2001 Ã 2003 au Burkina Faso. Med Trop ;67:1-5.
2006
Almeida MF, Alencar GP, Franca I, Novaes MHD, Siqueira AA, Schoeps D, Campbell OM, Rodrigues LC. Validation of birth certificates based on data from a case-control study. Cad Saude Publica 2006 Mar;22(3):643-652.
Blum L, Sharmin T, Ronsmans C. Attending Home vs. Clinic-Based Deliveries: Perspectives of Skilled Birth Attendants in Matlab, Bangladesh. Reproductive Health Matters. 2006, 14: 51-60.
Borghi J, Ensor T, Somanathan A, Lissner C, Mills A, on behalf of The Lancet Maternal Survival Series steering group 2006. Mobilising financial resources for maternal health. Lancet. 368(9545): 1457-65
Borghi J, Ensor T, Neupane BD & Tiwari S. 2006. The financial implications of skilled attendance at delivery: the case of Nepal. Tropical Medicine & International Health. 11 (2): 228-37.
Campbell OM, Graham WJ, on behalf of The Lancet Maternal Survival Series steering group. 2006. Strategies for reducing maternal mortality: getting on with what works. Lancet. 368(9543):1284-99.
Chowdhury ME, Ronsmans C, Killewo J, Anwar I, Gausia K, Das-Gupta S, Blum LS, Dieltiens G, Marshall T, Saha S, Borghi J. 2006. Equity in use of home-based or facility-based skilled obstetric care in rural Bangladesh: an observational study. Lancet 28;367(9507):327-32.
Collin S, Marshall T, Filippi V. 2006, Caesarean section and subsequent fertility in sub-Saharan Africa. BJOG 113:276-283.
Costello A, Azad K, Barnett S. 2006. An alternative strategy to reduce maternal mortality. Lancet 368 (9546): 1477–9.
Edmond KM, Bahl R, Tawiah-Agyemang C, Lan J, Kirkwood BR. 2006. Breast is still best: New evidence of the potential to save at least 1.4 million lives. Commonwealth Health Ministers Book.
Edmond KM, Zandoh C, Quigley MA, Amenga-Etego S, Owusu-Agyei S, Kirkwood BR. 2006. Delayed breastfeeding initiation increases risk of neonatal mortality. Pediatrics Mar;117(3):380-6.
Ellis M, Manandhar D, Hunt L, Barnett S, Azad K. 2006. Touch detection of neonatal hypothermia in Nepal. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 91 (5): F367–8.
Fernandez A, Osrin D. 2006. The city initiative for newborn health. PLoS Med 3 (9): e339.
Filippi V, Ronsmans C, Campbell OM, Graham WJ, Mills A, Borghi J, Koblinsky M, Osrin D. 2006. Maternal health in poor countries: the broader context and a call for action. Lancet 368 (9546): 1535–41.
Hindle LJ, Gitau R, Filteau SM, Newens KJ, Osrin D, Costello AM, Tomkins AM, Vaidya A, Mahato RK, Yadav B, Manandhar DS. 2006. Effect of multiple micronutrient supplementation during pregnancy on inflammatory markers in Nepalese women. Am J Clin Nutr 84 (5): 1086–92.
Hurt LS, Ronsmans C, Quigley M. 2006. Does the number of sons born affect long-term mortality of parents? A cohort study in rural Bangladesh. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 273:149-55.
Hurt LS, Ronsmans C, Thomas S .2006. Number of births and mortality in women who have completed their reproduction: A systematic review. Population studies 60:55-71.
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 2006. Going to scale with professional skilled care. Lancet. 368(9544):1377-86
Lawn JE, Cousens SN, Darmstadt GL, Bhutta ZA, Martines J, Paul V, Knippenberg R, Fogstadt H. 2006. 1 year after the Lancet Neonatal Survival Series - was the call for action heard? Lancet. , 367:1541-1547.
Lawn JE, Tinker A, Munjanja SP, Cousens SN. 2006. Where is maternal and child health now? Lancet. 368:1474-1477.
Lawn JE, Wilczynska-Ketende K, Cousens SN. 2006. Estimating the causes of 4 million neonatal deaths in the year 2000. International Journal of Epidemiology. 35:706-718.
Le Coeur S, Ronsmans C, Halembokaka G, Augereau-Vacher C, Khlat M. 2006. Comparison of family reporting of pregnancy status with a post-mortem β-HCG test in deceased women. A study in Pointe-Noire, Congo. Tropical Medicine and International Health 11: 528:531.
Lee SJ, Steer PJ, Filippi V. 2006. Seasonal patterns and preterm birth: a systematic review of the literature and an analysis in a London-based cohort. BJOG. Nov;113(11):1280-8. Review.
Mills N, Metcalfe C, Ronsmans C, Davis M, Lane JA, Sterne JA, Peters TJ, Hamdy FC, Neal DE, Donovan JL. 2006. A comparison of socio-demographic and psychological factors between patients consenting to randomisation and those selecting treatment (the ProtecT study). Contemporary Clinical Trials Oct;27(5):413-9.
Ronsmans C, Graham WJ, on behalf of The Lancet Maternal Survival Series steering group. 2006. Maternal mortality: who, when, where, and why. Lancet. 30 September 368 (9542):1189-1200
Ronsmans C, Collin S, Filippi V. 2006. Maternal mortality. In: Nutrition and Health in developing countries. 2nd Edition Semba R, Bloem M (eds).The Humana Press.
Rosato M, Mwansambo CW, Kazembe PN, Phiri T, Soko QS, Lewycka S, Kunyenge BE, Vergnano S, Osrin D, Newell ML, Costello AM. 2006. Women's groups' perceptions of maternal health issues in rural Malawi. Lancet 368 (9542): 1180“8.
Stanton C, Lawn JE, Rahman H, Wilczynska-Ketende K, Hill K. 2006. Stillbirth rates: delivering estimates in 190 countries. Lancet 367 (9521): 1487–94.
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