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Equity_Adjusted Safe_Delivery Thresholds: A Global Causal Analysis of Institutional Birth Coverage and Maternal Mortality in 182 Countries, 2000 to 2022

2025-11-20 obstetrics and gynecology Title + abstract only
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AbstractsO_ST_ABSBackgroundC_ST_ABSMaternal mortality remains far above the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target in many settings, and global strategies lack an empirically derived coverage threshold for "safe" delivery. MethodsWe assembled a longitudinal panel of 2 184 country-year observations from 182 countries (2000-22), linking UN Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-agency Group estimates with WHO and World Bank indicators. The primary exposure was institutional-birth coverage (% of l...

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