Monitoring MDG 5: Interpreting Maternal Mortality Estimates*
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The Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group (MMEIG), which includes the WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, and the World Bank has been collaborating with the University of California at Berkeley to develop global, regional and country to measure progress towards MDG 5. The purpose of this HNPNotes is to provide World Bank operational task teams an overview of methods for measuring MMR and the interpretation of the MMEIG MMR estimates. In a later section, the MMEIG approach is compared to the one employed by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).
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تاریخ انتشار 2012