Progress and challenges in maternal health in western China: a Countdown to 2015 national case study

• Main Authors: Yanqiu Gao, PhD (Author), Hong Zhou, PhD (Author), Neha S Singh, PhD (Author), Timothy Powell-Jackson, PhD (Author), Stephen Nash, MSc (Author), Min Yang, ProfPhD (Author), Sufang Guo, ProfMD (Author), Hai Fang, ProfPhD (Author), Melisa Martinez Alvarez, PhD (Author), Xiaoyun Liu, PhD (Author), Jay Pan, PhD (Author), Yan Wang, ProfDr PH (Author), Carine Ronsmans, ProfMD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: Background: China is one of the few Countdown countries to have achieved Millennium Development Goal 5 (75% reduction in maternal mortality ratio between 1990 and 2015). We aimed to examine the health systems and contextual factors that might have contributed to the substantial decline in m...