About the Authors

Fang Ye

Affiliation Department of Preventive Health Care, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China

Deng Ao

Affiliation Division of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, Peking University, No.38 Xueyuan Road Haidian District, Beijing, China

Yao Feng

Affiliation Division of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, Peking University, No.38 Xueyuan Road Haidian District, Beijing, China

Lin Wang

Affiliation Department of Preventive Health Care, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China

Jie Chen

Affiliation Department of Preventive Health Care, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China

Dale Huntington

Affiliation Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, World Health Organization Western Pacific Regional Office, Manila, Philippines

Haijun Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Haijun Wang, Yan Wang

wangyan@bjmu.edu.cn (YW); whjun1@bjmu.edu.cn (HJW)

Affiliation Institute of Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Peking University, No.38 Xueyuan Road Haidian District, Beijing, China

Yan Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Haijun Wang, Yan Wang

wangyan@bjmu.edu.cn (YW); whjun1@bjmu.edu.cn (HJW)

Affiliation Division of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, Peking University, No.38 Xueyuan Road Haidian District, Beijing, China

Economic Impact of Maternal Deaths in China

Membership of the Study Group for Economic Impact of Maternal Deaths in China is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YW HJW DH. Performed the experiments: FY DA YF HJW YW. Analyzed the data: FY LW JC HJW YW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DH LW JC. Wrote the paper: FY DA YF HJW YW.