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This is an international study of maternal care and maternal mortality. Since about 1800, different countries have developed quite different systems of maternal

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All too often, childbirth in early modern England was associated with fear, suffering and death, and this melancholy preoccupation weighed heavily on the sevent

The evaluation of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) by the Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (DCP3) focuses on maternal conditio