Maternal mortality.

摘要

Issues surrounding maternal mortality have recently been widely published in both the lay media and the health fraternity literature. Possible reasons for this are that there are only five years remaining until the 2015 deadline to have achieved the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The general impression among health professionals is that there has been slow progress in achieving MDG 5 (maternal health), which targets a three-quarters reduction in maternal deaths from 1990-2015. There have, however, been two recent publications, which are reflective of slow but significant progress in the reduction of maternal mortality in both high- and low-income countries.