title: Reducing maternal mortality: a review of progress and evidence-based strategies to achieve millennium development goal 5.
abstract: Maternal mortality represents a major global health challenge. Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG 5) set a range of targets pertaining to maternal mortality and universal access to reproductive health care. While the realization of these targets seems unlikely, cost-effective population-level approaches in combination with evidence-based interventions targeting the acute management of the major causes of maternal mortality present the potential for considerable progress as the 2015 deadline approaches.
authors.affiliation: NSW Health, Gosford Hospital, New South Wales, Australia. trsullivan8@gmail.com
authors.forename: Tim R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Sullivan
authors.forename: Jane E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Hirst
mesh_terms: D019049:Developed Countries / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003906:Developing Countries / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D014943:Global Health; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D040361:Healthy People Programs; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D008427:Maternal Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008428:Maternal Mortality / Q000639:trends*; D008429:Maternal Welfare / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011247:Pregnancy; D016387:Women's Health