Maternal deaths decline sharply across the globe

摘要

For the first time in decades, researchers are reporting a significant drop worldwide in the number of women dying each year from pregnancy and childbirth, to about 342 900 in 2008 from 526300 in 1980.The controversial findings, published in the Lancet, challenge the prevailing view of maternal mortality as an intractable problem that has defied every effort to solve it.