title: Demonstrating programme impact on maternal mortality.
abstract: Reducing maternal mortality if one of the primary goals of safe mother hood programmes in developing countries. Maternal mortality is not, however, a feasible outcome indicator with which to judge the success of these programmes. This is due to an unfortunate combination of obstacles to measurement--some general to assessing the mortality impact of health programmes and some peculiar to estimating maternal mortality. There is a need to promote alternative views and measures of programme success, and alternative uses for information on maternal deaths.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Research on Women's Health, Aberdeen University, UK.
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Graham
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Filippi
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ronsmans
mesh_terms: D003906:Developing Countries; D005260:Female; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D008427:Maternal Health Services / Q000592:standards*; D008428:Maternal Mortality; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D011247:Pregnancy; D015397:Program Evaluation