A method for estimating maternal and newborn lives saved from health-related investments funded by the UK government Department for International Development using the Lives Saved Tool

BMC Public Health

Volumn 17, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Friberg, Ingrid K ^a   Baschieri, Angela ^b   Abbotts, Jo ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c Department for International Development ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Department for International Development (DFID); Development assistance; Lives Saved Tool; Maternal; Maternal mortality; Modelling; Newborn; Newborn mortality; Reproductive

Indexed keywords

CHILDBIRTH; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; FUNDING; GOLD STANDARD; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; INVESTMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; MONITORING; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PROGRAM IMPACT; SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH PROMOTION; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UNITED KINGDOM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INVESTMENTS; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SOFTWARE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 85032920922     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-017-4748-z     Document Type: Article

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