Progress and challenges in maternal health in western China: a Countdown to 2015 national case study

Summary: Background: China is one of the few Countdown countries to have achieved Millennium Development Goal 5 (75% reduction in maternal mortality ratio between 1990 and 2015). We aimed to examine the health systems and contextual factors that might have contributed to the substantial decline in...

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Main Authors: Yanqiu Gao, PhD, Hong Zhou, PhD, Neha S Singh, PhD, Timothy Powell-Jackson, PhD, Stephen Nash, MSc, Min Yang, ProfPhD, Sufang Guo, ProfMD, Hai Fang, ProfPhD, Melisa Martinez Alvarez, PhD, Xiaoyun Liu, PhD, Jay Pan, PhD, Yan Wang, ProfDr PH, Carine Ronsmans, ProfMD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-05-01
Series:The Lancet Global Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X17301006