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- Title
Appropriate technology to prevent maternal mortality: current research requirements.
- Authors
Tsu, Vivien Davis
- Abstract
Maternal mortality involves a complex mixture of clinical, infrastructural and social issues and will require a multifaceted approach if we are to see meaningful reductions occur. That includes thoughtful attention to appropriate technologies for low-resource countries. An international group of specialists meeting in Bellagio, Italy, in 2003 identified important needs and opportunities related to new and underutilized technologies to reduce pregnancy-related mortality. Research to fill in critical information gaps was a recurrent theme. Research, whether it is for product development, for building the evidence base about effectiveness and safety or for helping refine introduction strategies and guide practice, plays a critical role in the development and widespread use of technologies. Priority research needs related to the five major causes of maternal mortality—haemorrhage, puerperal sepsis, unsafe abortion, pre-eclampsia and eclampsia and obstructed labour—have been identified. Appropriate collaborations of investigators and other stakeholders and adequate financial resources are urgently needed to move the research agenda forward.
- Subjects
MATERNAL mortality; PUERPERAL septicemia; ABORTION; PREECLAMPSIA; HEMORRHAGE
- Publication
BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 2005, Vol 112, Issue 9, p1213
- ISSN
1470-0328
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1471-0528.2005.00715.x