Trends in Maternal Mortality

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.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	World Health Organization, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group, United Nations
Format:	Book biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Geneva: World Health Organization 2015-12
Subjects:	CHILD HEALTH, CHILDBIRTH COMPLICATIONS, UNITED NATIONS POPULATION DIVISION, MATERNAL DEATH, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, POPULATION STRUCTURES, HEALTH-CARE FACILITIES, MORTALITY REDUCTION, EARLY PREGNANCY, POPULATION REFERENCE BUREAU, ANTENATAL CARE, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS, MATERNAL MORTALITY DATA, TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY, LIVE BIRTHS, REDUCING MATERNAL MORTALITY, HUMAN REPRODUCTION, WOMEN OF CHILDBEARING AGE, HEALTH INSURANCE, DISCRIMINATION, HEALTH CARE, ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME, LEGAL STATUS, FAMILY MEMBERS, UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND, FAMILY PLANNING METHODS, EPIDEMIC, HEALTH WORKERS, PUBLICATIONS, DEVELOPMENT GOALS, LITERACY RATES, POPULATION FUND, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, STRATEGY FOR WOMEN, HOSPITAL, LIFE EXPECTANCY, RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS, NATIONAL POPULATION, CIVIL REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, MATERNAL MORTALITY, INEQUITIES, DEMOGRAPHERS, KNOWLEDGE, LIFETIME RISK, PREGNANCY-RELATED CAUSES, PREGNANT WOMAN, MINISTRY OF HEALTH, NEWBORNS, DISEASES, AIDS EPIDEMIC, MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL, CAUSES OF DEATH, PREGNANCIES, TRAINING, LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES, POPULATION DIVISION, GENDER MAINSTREAMING, HEALTH SYSTEMS, BABY, FERTILITY RATE, PALESTINIAN TERRITORY, EMERGENCIES, CHILDBEARING AGE, MATERNAL CAUSES, VULNERABLE POPULATIONS, TETANUS, HIV INFECTION, MODERN FAMILY PLANNING METHODS, HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS, MORTALITY RATE, MATERNAL MORTALITY REDUCTION, NATIONAL COMMITTEE, SERVICE DELIVERY, POSTPARTUM PERIOD, GLOBAL HEALTH, GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT, MORTALITY, RESPECT, PROGRESS, PERINATAL MORBIDITY, SKILLED ATTENDANT, AIDS DEATHS, CHILDBIRTH, INFANT MORTALITY, LARGE POPULATIONS, INFANT, LIVE BIRTH, OBSTETRIC COMPLICATIONS, QUALITY OF CARE, AGE MORTALITY, MORTALITY LEVELS, ADOLESCENT GIRLS, CAESAREAN SECTION, HIV, MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES, SCHOOL ATTENDANCE, EMPOWERING WOMEN, WOMAN, ACCESS TO MATERNITY SERVICES, HEALTH POLICY, NATIONAL LEVELS, PURCHASING POWER, MATERNAL MORTALITY RATIOS, HEALTH-CARE PROVIDERS, UNIVERSAL ACCESS, MATERNITY SERVICES, WORKSHOP, FAMILY PLANNING, REFUGEES, SERVICE UTILIZATION, POPULATIONS, MOTHER, PREGNANCY-RELATED DEATHS, MALARIA, ADOLESCENTS, COMPLICATIONS OF PREGNANCY, CHILDBEARING, POLICY, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, REPRODUCTIVE AGE, MATERNAL MORTALITY RATIO, NUMBER OF WOMEN, HEALTH SYSTEM, SOCIAL AFFAIRS, HUMAN LIFE, HUMAN RIGHTS, PREGNANT WOMEN, MATERNAL HEALTH, MODERN FAMILY PLANNING, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES, CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES, MODERN FAMILY, MORTALITY RATIO, RESOLUTION, MATERNAL DEATHS, MORTALITY DECLINES, HEALTH PROBLEMS, WORLD POPULATION, CENSUSES, MIDWIVES, GLOBAL AIDS EPIDEMIC, NUMBER OF DEATHS, TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANTS, VITAL STATISTICS, POPULATION, PURCHASING POWER PARITY, UNFPA, MATERNAL MORTALITY RATE, NEWBORN HEALTH, PREGNANCY STATUS, FERTILITY, REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, CHILD HEALTH SERVICES, MATERNITY CARE, WOMEN, RISK OF DEATH, EMERGENCY OBSTETRIC CARE, EFFECTIVE ACTION, NEWBORN, OBSTETRIC CARE, AIDS, MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS, COMPLICATIONS, HEALTH SERVICES, PREGNANCY, ABORTION, LEVEL OF FERTILITY, SKILLED ATTENDANTS, NATIONAL HEALTH SYSTEMS, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT,
Online Access:	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 https://hdl.handle.net/10986/23550
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