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Author
(year)
(IV)/(EV)
Yan (1989)
(-)/(-)
Target
population
Women in
general
Brief intervention description Targeted
outcome(s)
National programme in China starting in the
1950s. Interventions included: training and
equipping TBAs; increasing the number of
trained midwives and obstetricians;
increasing the number of maternity beds;
setting up a network for the care and referral
of abnormal obstetric cases; introduction of
ambulances.
Maternal
mortality
Findings summary
Appendix 4.5
The MMR declined sharply in China in the 1950s
and 1960s. Direct obstetric deaths dropped
from the average value of 82.1% of all maternal
deaths in the period 1949-54 to 39.1% in the
period 1979-83.
What are the effects of different models of delivery for improving maternal and infant health outcomes for poor people in urban areas in low income
and lower middle income countries?
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