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Measuring maternal mortality: An overview of opportunities and options for developing countries

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, May 2008
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (81st percentile)
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Title
Measuring maternal mortality: An overview of opportunities and options for developing countries
Published in
BMC Medicine, May 2008
DOI 10.1186/1741-7015-6-12
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Authors

WJ Graham, S Ahmed, C Stanton, CL Abou-Zahr, OMR Campbell

Abstract

There is currently an unprecedented expressed need and demand for estimates of maternal mortality in developing countries. This has been stimulated in part by the creation of a Millennium Development Goal that will be judged partly on the basis of reductions in maternal mortality by 2015.

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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 241 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Nigeria 4 2%
Tanzania, United Republic of 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Indonesia 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Burundi 1 <1%
Nepal 1 <1%
Kenya 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Other 6 2%
Unknown 223 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 50 21%
Student > Postgraduate 31 13%
Researcher 30 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 20 8%
Other 55 23%
Unknown 29 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 106 44%
Social Sciences 27 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 20 8%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 10 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 9 4%
Other 31 13%
Unknown 38 16%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 May 2016.
All research outputs
#4,394,846
of 23,743,910 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#2,143
of 3,594 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,565
of 84,807 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#3
of 8 outputs
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