Issues in maternal–newborn health and poverty. The costs of maternal-newborn illness and mortality
This paper is a systematic review of the estimation of the cost of illness related to maternal–newborn ill-health. The methodology used includes a systematic search on electronic databases for published literature and manual searches for the identification of grey (unpublished) literature. The review reveals some of the difficulties in measuring the cost-of-illness and suggests probable data sources for cost-of-illness studies of maternal–newborn ill-health.