Download or read book Maternal Mortality in 2000 written by Carla Abou Zahr and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2004 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document presents estimates of maternal mortality by country and region for the year 2000. It describes the background, rationale and history of estimates of maternal mortality and the methodology used in 2000 compared with the approaches used in previous exercises in 1990 and 1995.