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Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

  • Nicholas J. Kassebaum
  • , Amelia Bertozzi-Villa
  • , Megan S. Coggeshall
  • , Katya A. Shackelford
  • , Caitlyn Steiner
  • , Kyle R. Heuton
  • , Diego Gonzalez-Medina
  • , Ryan Barber
  • , Chantal Huynh
  • , Daniel Dicker
  • , Tara Templin
  • , Timothy M. Wolock
  • , Ayse Abbasoglu Ozgoren
  • , Foad Abd-Allah
  • , Semaw Ferede Abera
  • , Ibrahim Abubakar
  • , Tom Achoki
  • , Ademola Adelekan
  • , Zanfina Ademi
  • , Arsène Kouablan Adou
  • José C. Adsuar, Emilie E. Agardh, Dickens Akena, Deena Alasfoor, Zewdie Aderaw Alemu, Rafael Alfonso-Cristancho, Samia Alhabib, Raghib Ali, Mazin J. Al Kahbouri, François Alla, Peter J. Allen, Mohammad A. AlMazroa, Ubai Alsharif, Elena Alvarez, Nelson Alvis-Guzmán, Adansi A. Amankwaa, Azmeraw T. Amare, Hassan Amini, Walid Ammar, Carl A.T. Antonio, Palwasha Anwari, Johan Ärnlöv, Valentina S.Arsic Arsenijevic, Ali Artaman, Majed Masoud Asad, Rana J. Asghar, Reza Assadi, Lydia S. Atkins, Alaa Badawi, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Arindam Basu, Sanjay Basu, Justin Beardsley, Neeraj Bedi, Tolesa Bekele, Michelle L. Bell, Eduardo Bernabe, Tariku J. Beyene, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Aref Bin Abdulhak, Jed D. Blore, Berrak Bora Basara, Dipan Bose, Nicholas Breitborde, Rosario Cárdenas, Carlos A. Castañeda-Orjuela, Ruben Estanislao Castro, Ferrán Catalá-López, Alanur Cavlin, Jung Chen Chang, Xuan Che, Costas A. Christophi, Sumeet S. Chugh, Massimo Cirillo, Samantha M. 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Lotufo, Jixiang Ma, Stefan Ma, Vasco Manuel Pedro Machado, Nana Kwaku Mainoo, Marek Majdan, Christopher Chabila Mapoma, Wagner Marcenes, Melvin Barrientos Marzan, Amanda J. Mason-Jones, Man Mohan Mehndiratta, Fabiola Mejia-Rodriguez, Ziad A. Memish, Walter Mendoza, Ted R. Miller, Edward J. Mills, Ali H. Mokdad, Glen Liddell Mola, Lorenzo Monasta, Jonathan De La Cruz Monis, Julio Cesar Montañez Hernandez, Ami R. Moore, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, Rintaro Mori, Ulrich O. Mueller, Mitsuru Mukaigawara, Aliya Naheed, Kovin S. Naidoo, Devina Nand, Vinay Nangia, Denis Nash, Chakib Nejjari, Robert G. Nelson, Sudan Prasad Neupane, Charles R. Newton, Marie Ng, Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen, Muhammad Imran Nisar, Sandra Nolte, Ole F. Norheim, Luke Nyakarahuka, In Hwan Oh, Takayoshi Ohkubo, Bolajoko O. Olusanya, Saad B. Omer, John Nelson Opio, Orish Ebere Orisakwe, Jeyaraj D. Pandian, Christina Papachristou, Jae Hyun Park, Angel J. Paternina Caicedo, Scott B. Patten, Vinod K. 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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)980-1004
Number of pages25
JournalThe Lancet
Volume384
Issue number9947
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 22 2014

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Medicine

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