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

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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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