[HTML][HTML] Overall and abortion-related maternal mortality rates in Uruguay over the past 25 years and their association with policies and actions aimed at protecting …

L Briozzo, RGP de León, G Tomasso… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Objective To evaluate changes in maternal mortality rates in Uruguay over the past 25 years,
as well as their distribution by cause, and their temporal relationship with social changes
and Human Development Index (HDI) indicators. Methods Data on maternal mortality
obtained directly from the Uruguayan Ministry of Public Health for the 2001 to 2015 period
were analyzed together with data from the United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child
Mortality Estimation for the 1990 to 2015 period. The swiftness of the decrease in maternal …