The costs of maternal–newborn illness and mortality

Overview

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systematic search on electronic databases for published literature and manual searches for the identification of grey (unpublished) literature.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.