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. 2010 Nov 30;7(11):e1001003.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001003.

A call for responsible estimation of global health

Wendy J Graham  1 , Sam Adjei
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A call for responsible estimation of global health

Wendy J Graham et al. PLoS Med. .
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Conflict of interest statement

WJG declares that she is the principal scientist for a research group (Immpact) that undertakes the measurement of population health, including maternal mortality. WJG was one of the peer reviewers for the Lancet article by Hogan et al. that reported the IHME maternal mortality estimates, and was a member of the external Technical Advisory Group for the Inter-agency Group for maternal mortality. SA is a former Board member of the Health Metrics Network, former Deputy Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, former chairman of the country coordinating group of Immpact in Ghana, and former visiting Professor at the University of Aberdeen. He has provided consultancy services to the African Program of Onchocerciasis Control.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Comparison of two sets of estimates for the maternal mortality ratio for 171 countries, 2008.
Estimates are from the UN inter-agency group (UN) and the IHME ; maternal mortality ratio (MMR) is maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. Those countries with very similar estimates from the two sources lie essentially along the 45-degree line in this chart. Countries lying above such a line have estimates from the UN higher than those from IHME, and vice versa for countries below the line. For example, one country has an MMR estimate of 1,200 from the UN versus 675 from the IHME.
See this image and copyright information in PMC

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