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 interpr...

AIM To describe predictors of mortality in the 5 year follow up of the Melbourne Visual Impairment Project (VIP) cohort. METHODS The Melbourne VIP was a population based study of the distribution and determinants of age related eye disease in a cluster random sample of Melbourne residents aged 40 years and older. Baseline examinations were conducted between 1992 and 1994. In 1997, 5 year foll...