Maternal Mortality Estimated Using the Sisterhood Method in Gulu District, Uganda

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 72-74

  Orach, Christopher Garimoi ^a  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DELIVERY; EDUCATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOME DELIVERY; HUMAN; LABOR COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; OBSTETRIC HEMORRHAGE; PRENATAL CARE; PUERPERAL INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; UGANDA; WAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAUSE OF DEATH; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MIDWIFERY; MOTHERS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NUCLEAR FAMILY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UGANDA;

EID: 0034103878     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: 17581133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/004947550003000205     Document Type: Article

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