Maternal mortality and morbidity burden in the Eastern Mediterranean region: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study

Assessing the burden of maternal mortality is important for tracking progress and identifying public health gaps. This paper provides an overview of the burden of maternal mortality in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) by underlying cause and age from 1990 to 2015.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Khalil, Ibrahim (Author) , Bärnighausen, Till (Author) , Jonas, Jost B. (Author) , Mohammed, Shafiu (Author)
Format:	Article (Journal)
Language:	English
Published:	3 August 2017
In:	International journal of public health Year: 2018, Volume: 63, Issue: 1, Pages: 47-61
ISSN:	1661-8564
DOI:	10.1007/s00038-017-1004-3
Online Access:	Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-017-1004-3
Author Notes:	Ibrahim Khalil, Michael Collison, Charbel El Bcheraoui, Raghid Charara, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, Ashkan Afshin, Adrienne Chew, Farah Daoud, Kristopher J. Krohn, Danny Colombara, Rebecca Ehrenkranz, Michael Kutz, Haidong Wang, Amanuel Alemu Abajobir, Foad Abd-Allah, Haftom Niguse Abraha, Laith J. Abu-Raddad, Aliasghar Ahmad Kiadaliri, Alireza Ahmadi, Kedir Yimam Ahmed, Muktar Beshir Ahmed, Faris Hasan Al Lami, Khurshid Alam, Deena Alasfoor, Reza Alizadeh-Navaei, Juma M. Alkaabi, Fatma Al-Maskari, Rajaa Al-Raddadi, Khalid A. Altirkawi, Nahla Anber, Hossein Ansari, Hamid Asayesh, Rana Jawad Asghar, Tesfay Mehari Atey, Tadesse Awoke Ayele, Till Bärnighausen, Umar Bacha, Aleksandra Barac, Suzanne L. Barker-Collo, Bernhard T. Baune, Shahrzad Bazargan-Hejazi, Neeraj Bedi, Isabela M. Bensenor, Adugnaw Berhane, Addisu Shunu Beyene, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Dube Jara Boneya, Rohan Borschmann, Nicholas J. K. Breitborde, Zahid A. Butt, Ferrán Catalá-López, Liliana G. Ciobanu, Hadi Danawi, Amare Deribew, Samath D. Dharmaratne, Kerrie E. Doyle, Aman Yesuf Endries, Emerito Jose Aquino Faraon, André Faro, Maryam S. Farvid, Wubalem Fekadu, Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Florian Fischer, Tsegaye Tewelde Gebrehiwot, Ababi Zergaw Giref, Melkamu Dedefo Gishu, Alessandra Carvalho Goulart, Tesfa Dejenie Habtewold, Randah Ribhi Hamadeh, Mitiku Teshome Hambisa, Samer Hamidi, Josep Maria Haro, Mohammad Sadegh Hassanvand, Nobuyuki Horita, Mohamed Hsairi, Hsiang Huang, Abdullatif Husseini, Mihajlo B. Jakovljevic, Spencer Lewis James, Jost B. Jonas, Amir Kasaeian, Yousef Saleh Khader, Ejaz Ahmad Khan, Abdullah Tawfih Abdullah Khoja, Ardeshir Khosravi, Jagdish Khubchandani, Daniel Kim, Yun Jin Kim, Yoshihiro Kokubo, Ai Koyanagi, Barthelemy Kuate Defo, Heidi J. Larson, Asma Abdul Latif, Paul H. Lee, Cheru Tesema Leshargie, Ricky Leung, Loon-Tzian Lo, Raimundas Lunevicius, Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek, Mohammed Magdy Abd El Razek, Reza Majdzadeh, Azeem Majeed, Reza Malekzadeh, Jose Martinez-Raga, Habibolah Masoudi Farid, Mohsen Mazidi, John J. McGrath, Ziad A. Memish, Walter Mendoza, Melkamu Merid Mengesha, Mubarek Abera Mengistie, George A. Mensah, Haftay Berhane Mezgebe, Ted R. Miller, Philip B. Mitchell, Alireza Mohammadi, Shafiu Mohammed, Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer, Felix Akpojene Ogbo, Elizabeth Palomares Castillo, Christina Papachristou, Scott B. Patten, George C. Patton, Pereira M. David, Aslam Pervaiz, Michael Robert Phillips, Farshad Pourmalek, Mostafa Qorbani, Amir Radfar, Anwar Rafay, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Rajesh Kumar Rai, David Laith Rawaf, Salman Rawaf, Amany H. Refaat, Satar Rezaei, Mohammad Sadegh Rezai, Gholamreza Roshandel, Mahdi Safdarian, Mahdi Safiabadi, Saeid Safiri, Rajeh Sagar, Mohammad Ali Sahraian, Payman Salamati, Abdallah M. Samy, Benn Sartorius, Mete I. Saylan, Soraya Seedat, Sadaf G. Sepanlou, Masood Ali Shaikh, Morteza Shamsizadeh, Diego Augusto Santos Silva, Jasvinder A. Singh, Badr H.A. Sobaih, Chandrashekhar T. Sreeramareddy, Dan J. Stein, Rizwan Suliankatchi Abdulkader, Bryan L. Sykes, Rafael Tabarés-Seisdedos, Karen M. Tabb, Arash Tehrani-Banihashemi, Mohamad-Hani Temsah, Abdullah Sulieman Terkawi, Roman Topor-Madry, Kingsley Nnanna Ukwaja, Olalekan A. Uthman, Stein Emil Vollset, Tolassa Wakayo, Yuan-Pang Wang, Andrea Werdecker, Ronny Westerman, Abdulhalik Workicho, Mohsen Yaghoubi, Hassen Hamid Yimam, Naohiro Yonemoto, Mustafa Z. Younis, Chuanhua Yu, Maysaa El Sayed Zaki, Aisha O. Jumaan, Theo Vos, Simon I. Hay, Mohsen Naghavi, Nicholas J. Kassebaum, Christopher J.L. Murray, Ali H. Mokdad, GBD 2015 Eastern Mediterranean Region Maternal Mortality Collaborators