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Potential Gains in Reproductive-Aged Life Expectancy by Eliminating Maternal Mortality: A Demographic Bonus of Achieving MDG 5

OBJECTIVE: We assessed the change over time in the contribution of maternal mortality to a life expectancy calculated between ages 15 and 49, or Reproductive-Aged Life Expectancy (RALE). Our goal was to estimate the increase in RALE in developed countries over the twentieth century and the hypotheti...

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Autores principales: Canudas-Romo, Vladimir, Liu, Li, Zimmerman, Linnea, Ahmed, Saifuddin, Tsui, Amy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3923727/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24551040
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0086694