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For maternal mortality progress has been even more elusive. Despite 15 years of the Safe Motherhood Initiative, overall levels of maternal mortality are generally thought to have remained unchanged, with the latest estimate of deaths standing at approximately 530,000 per year (WHO, UNICEF et al. 2003). While a handful of countries have indeed experienced remarkable drops in maternal mortality ratio (an indicator of the safety of childbirth and pregnancy), in the great majority of high mortality countries, there has been little change. Indeed, in some countries, where levels of HIV and malaria. | Health supplier quality and the distribution of child health Carol Propper John Rigg Simon Burgess and the ALSPAC Study Team Contents 1. 2. Related The impact of primary care on health Measuring GP 3. Our 4. The Child Indicators of practice Adjusting the GP quality measures for the health status of the practice Background 5. Do poor children have low quality GPs .16 Poor practice quality and poor child Reducing the measures of quality to smaller Is the impact of quality different for poor children .21 CASE 102 June 2005 Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion London School of Economics Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE CASE enquiries - tel 020 7955 6679 i Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion The ESRC Research Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion CASE was established in October 1997 with funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. It is located within the Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines STICERD at the London School of Economics and Political Science and benefits from support from STICERD. It is directed by Howard Glennerster John Hills Kathleen Kiernan Julian Le Grand Anne Power and Carol Propper. Our Discussion Paper series is available free of charge. We also produce summaries of our research in CASEbriefs and reports from various conferences and activities in CASEreports. To subscribe to the CASEpaper series or for further information on the work of the Centre and our seminar series please contact the Centre Administrator Jane Dickson on Telephone Fax Email Web site UK 20 7955 6679 UK 20 7955 6951 http case Carol Propper John Rigg Simon Burgess All rights reserved. Short sections of text not to exceed two paragraphs may be quoted without explicit .