Trends in Maternal Mortality

World Health Organization, Unicef, Unfpa, World Bank Group and United Nations

No 23550 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Health; Nutrition and Population-Health Monitoring & Evaluation Health; Nutrition and Population-Health Indicators Health; Nutrition and Population-Adolescent Health Health; Nutrition and Population-Population Policies Health; Nutrition and Population-Early Child and Children's Health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-12
ISBN: 9789241565141
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