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. 2018 Feb 15:360:k373.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.k373.

How many lives are at stake? Assessing 2030 sustainable development goal trajectories for maternal and child health

John W McArthur  1 , Krista Rasmussen  2 , Gavin Yamey  3
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How many lives are at stake? Assessing 2030 sustainable development goal trajectories for maternal and child health

John W McArthur et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

John W McArthur, Krista Rasmussen, and Gavin Yamey examine how far countries have to go to meet the targets for maternal and child mortality and what needs to be done to help them

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and have no relevant interests to declare. Provenance and peer review: Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

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Countries that are off track for 2030 targets for maternal or child mortality
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Fig 2
Scenarios for global trajectory for maternal mortality ratio to 2030
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Distribution of average annual rates of fall required to meet 2030 sustainable development goal for child mortality among countries that had not met target in 2016, by country and by estimated number of births in 2030 for those countries
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