Women deliver for development

Summary There is a large amount of research into maternal health as a health issue, but maternal health as a development issue has been less explored. This Review analyses the evidence from the past 20 years on the links between maternal health and development to examine maternal health within a dev...

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Published inThe Lancet (British edition) Vol. 370; no. 9595; pp. 1347 - 1357
Main Authors Gill, Kirrin, MS, Pande, Rohini, ScD, Malhotra, Anju, PhD
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Elsevier Ltd 13.10.2007
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Adult
Births
Family
Female
Goals
Health care
Humans
Internal Medicine
Maternal Health Services - statistics & numerical data
Maternal Health Services - utilization
Maternal Mortality - trends
Maternal Welfare - statistics & numerical data
Maternal Welfare - trends
Mortality
Pregnancy
Reproductive Medicine - statistics & numerical data
Reproductive Medicine - trends
Women's Rights - trends
Womens health
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Summary:Summary There is a large amount of research into maternal health as a health issue, but maternal health as a development issue has been less explored. This Review analyses the evidence from the past 20 years on the links between maternal health and development to examine maternal health within a development framework. We note that although existing evidence suggests that these links are strong, further research is needed to definitively substantiate how and to what extent maternal health and development affect each other. Further, we find that progress and investment in maternal health have lagged far behind estimates of what is needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
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ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61577-3