Trends in Maternal Mortality : 1990 to 2015

World Health Organization; UNICEF; UNFPA; World Bank Group; United Nations

Trends in Maternal Mortality : 1990 to 2015

2015

World Health Organization | UNICEF | UNFPA | World Bank Group | United Nations

In 2000, the United Nations (UN) Member States pledged to work towards a series of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), including the target of a three-quarters reduction in the 1990 maternal mortality ratio (MMR; maternal deaths per 100 000 live births), to be achieved by 2015. This target (MDG 5A) and that of achieving universal access to reproductive health (MDG 5B) together formed the two targets for MDG 5: Improve maternal health. In the five years counting down to the conclusion of the MDGs, a number of initiatives were established to galvanize efforts towards reducing maternal mortality. These included the UN Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health, which mobilized efforts towards achieving MDG 4 (Improve child health) as well as MDG 5, and the high-level Commission on Information and Accountability (COIA), which promoted “global reporting, oversight, and accountability on women’s and children’s health”. Now, building on the momentum generated by MDG 5, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) establish a transformative new agenda for maternal health towards ending preventable maternal mortality; target 3.1 of SDG 3 is to reduce the global MMR to less than 70 per 100 000 live births by 2030.

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Geneva: World Health Organization

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Global health; Maternal mortality ratio; Emergency obstetric care; Age mortality; Purchasing power parity; Maternal health; Newborn; National committee; Live births; Demographers; Number of women; Perinatal morbidity; Populations; Maternal mortality ratios; Social affairs; Inequities; Maternal health services; National population; Causes of death; Women of childbearing age; Access to maternity services; Childbirth; Workshop; Mortality levels; Ministry of health; Maternal mortality data; Child health services; Pregnant woman; Pregnancies; Universal access; Large populations; World population; Modern family planning; Health problems; Newborn health; Health systems; Maternity care; Human life; Adolescent girls; Aids epidemic; Level of fertility; Purchasing power; Aids deaths; Mortality declines; Maternity services; Civil registration systems; Skilled attendant; Woman; Effective action; Risk of death; Mother; Childbirth complications; Development goals; Population division; Traditional birth attendants; Health policy; Palestinian territory; Population structures; Strategy for women; United nations population fund; Complications; Health workers; Quality of care; Population fund; Maternal mortality rate; Reproductive age; Maternal death; Fertility rate; Modern family; Human reproduction; Number of deaths; Maternal deaths; Respect; Reproductive health services; National health systems; Policy; Maternal mortality; Family planning methods; Life expectancy; Mortality reduction; Epidemic; United nations population division; Complications of pregnancy; Maternal causes; Childbearing age; Unfpa; Reducing maternal mortality; Obstetric care; Human development; Modern family planning methods; Family members; Termination of pregnancy; Registration systems; Maternal mortality reduction; Infant mortality; Millennium development goal; Midwives; Antenatal care; Progress; Lifetime risk; School attendance; Literacy rates; Empowering women; Service utilization; Hiv infection; Obstetric complications; Childbearing; Vulnerable populations; Mortality rate; National levels; Newborns; Population reference bureau; Pregnancy status; Early pregnancy; Global aids epidemic; Live birth; Mortality ratio; Skilled attendants; Service delivery; Health system

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CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/. World Health Organization

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/12/25714401/trends-maternal-mortality-1990-2015-estimates-unicef-unfpa-world-bank-group-united-nations-population-division-vol-2-final-report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23550

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