About the Authors

Haijun Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Haijun Wang, Fang Ye

Affiliation Division of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China

Fang Ye

Contributed equally to this work with: Haijun Wang, Fang Ye

Affiliation Division of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China

Yan Wang

wangyan@bjmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Division of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China

Dale Huntington

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

the study group for Economic Impact of Maternal Deaths in China

Members of the study group for Economic Impact of Maternal Deaths in China can be found 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: YW HJW FY. Analyzed the data: FY HJW YW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HJW FY YW. Wrote the paper: HJW FY YW DH.