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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Maternal Health
Task Force (MHTF)<br>
</span></font></b><b><font color="maroon" face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold">-PLOS Collection on Maternal Health Year 2
(2012-13)<br>
Maternal Health is Women’s Health<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>
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Available online at: <a href="http://bit.ly/10m5JCC" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">http://bit.ly/10m5JCC</span></font></a> <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">“…..In 2012-13, the
Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) and the PLOS Medicine Editors continue their
collaboration to create a freely available, open access collection of
outstanding research and commentary on maternal health, the MHTF-PLOS Collection
on Maternal Health, to further our collective goal to improve women's and
children's health worldwide through greater access to more comprehensive
maternal health information and knowledge.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> Our continued commitment to
highlighting and pressing for more evidence on maternal health reflects the
persistence of this problem around the world: while the number of maternal
deaths overall is declining, Millennium Development Goal 5 (to improve maternal
health) is the goal most lagging behind due to a lack of progress in a critical
number of countries.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">We chose the theme for Year 2 of
"Maternal Health is Women's Health" because it is crucial to consider
maternal health in the context of women's health throughout their lifespans.
While pregnancy is limited to women of reproductive age, maternal health is
influenced by the health of women and girls before pregnancy, and it also
influences women's health broadly during and after the reproductive years.
Inability to access quality health care and family planning resources, low
educational attainment, low socioeconomic status, restrictive gender roles,
poor nutrition, and a host of other social and biological factors combine to
put girls and women at risk for not being able to attain and sustain the health
status they deserve throughout their lives….”<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Table of Contents: <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Editorial<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Maternal Health Is Women's Health: A
Call for Papers for Year 2 of the Maternal Health Task Force–PLOS
Collection<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Samantha R. Lattof, Mary Nell Wegner,
Ana Langer , the PLOS Medicine Editors<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Research Articles<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">New Findings for Maternal Mortality
Age Patterns: Aggregated Results for 38 Countries<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Ann K. Blanc, William Winfrey, John
Ross<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
Quality Indicators for Continuous Monitoring to Improve Maternal and Infant
Health in Maternity Departments: <br>
A Modified <u></u>Delphi<u></u> Survey of an International
Multidisciplinary Panel<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Rym Boulkedid, Olivier Sibony,
François Goffinet, Arnaud Fauconnier, Bernard Branger, Corinne Alberti<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
Malaria in the Post-Partum Period; a Prospective Cohort Study<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Machteld E. Boel, Marcus J. Rijken,
Tjalling Leenstra, Aung Pyae Phyo, Mupawjay Pimanpanarak, Naw Lily
Keereecharoen, <br>
Stephane Proux, Natthapon Laochan, Mallika Imwong, Pratap Singhasivanon,
Nicholas J. White, Rose McGready, François H. Nosten<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
Early Antenatal Care: Does It Make a Difference to Outcomes of Pregnancy
Associated with Syphilis? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Sarah J. Hawkes, Gabriela B. Gomez,
Nathalie Broutet<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
Global Estimates of Syphilis in Pregnancy and Associated Adverse Outcomes:
Analysis of Multinational Antenatal Surveillance Data<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Lori Newman, Mary Kamb, Sarah Hawkes,
Gabriela Gomez, Lale Say, Armando Seuc, Nathalie Broutet<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
Care Decision Making of Frontline Providers of Maternal and Newborn Health
Services in the Greater <u></u>Accra<u></u> Region of <u></u><u></u>Ghana<u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Ebenezer Oduro-Mensah, Aku Kwamie,
Edward Antwi, Sarah Amissah Bamfo, Helen Mary Bainson, Benjamin Marfo, <br>
Mary Amoakoh Coleman, Diederick E. Grobbee, Irene Akua Agyepong<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
Effects of Community Participation on Improving Uptake of Skilled Care for
Maternal and Newborn Health: A Systematic Review<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="ES-TRAD">Cicely Marston, Alicia
Renedo, C. R. McGowan, Anayda Portela<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
Why Do Women Not Use Antenatal Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries? A
Meta-Synthesis of Qualitative Studies<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Kenneth Finlayson, Soo Downe<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
Factors Affecting Antenatal Care Attendance: Results from Qualitative Studies
in <u></u>Ghana<u></u>, <u></u>Kenya<u></u> and <u></u><u></u>Malawi<u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Christopher Pell, Arantza Meñaca,
Florence Were, Nana A. Afrah, Samuel Chatio, Lucinda Manda-Taylor, Mary J.
Hamel, <br>
Abraham Hodgson, Harry Tagbor, Linda Kalilani, Peter Ouma, Robert Pool<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
Distance to Care, Facility Delivery and Early Neonatal Mortality in <u></u>Malawi<u></u> and <u></u><u></u>Zambia<u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Terhi J. Lohela, Oona M. R. Campbell,
Sabine Gabrysch<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
Status of Emergency Obstetric Care in Six Developing Countries Five Years
before the MDG Targets for Maternal and Newborn Health<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Charles Ameh, Sia Msuya, Jan Hofman,
Joanna Raven, Matthews Mathai, Nynke van den Broek<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
Impact of Free Delivery Care on Health Facility Delivery and Insurance Coverage
in <u></u><u></u>Ghana<u></u><u></u>’s
Brong Ahafo Region<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Susie Dzakpasu, Seyi Soremekun,
Alexander Manu, Guus ten Asbroek, Charlotte Tawiah, Lisa Hurt, Justin Fenty,
Seth Owusu-Agyei, <br>
Zelee Hill, Oona M. R. Campbell, Betty R. Kirkwood<br>
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