Author
Okeke; Edward N. ; Pitchforth; Emma ; Abubakar; Isa Sadeeq ; Glick; Peter ; Chari; Amalavoyal V.
Year
2015
Publisher
RAND Corporation
Language
English
Last Update
08-Jun-2025
Keywords
Health Sciences ; Public Health ; History
One of the major global health challenges of the 21st century is reducing the approximately 3 million newborn deaths, 7 million under-five deaths, and 300,000 maternal deaths that occur globally each year.¹ This health burden is not uniformly distributed, with most deaths occurring in the poorest regions of the world; 87 percent of maternal deaths and 37 percent of neonatal deaths, for example, occur in sub-Saharan Africa (Wang, Alva, Wang, & Fort, 2011). The startling difference in a woman’s risk of dying during pregnancy or childbirth—1 in 6 in some parts of Africa compared to about 1 in 2,400...
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