House-to-house survey vs. snowball technique for capturing maternal deaths in India: A search for a cost-effective method

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 550-556

  Singh, Padam ^a,b,c   Pandey, Arvind ^a   Aggarwal, Abha ^a  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b Indian Council of Medical Research ^*  (India)

^c National Statistical Commission   (India)

Author keywords

House to house survey; Live births; Maternal death; Snowball sampling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INDIA; LIVE BIRTH; MATERNAL MORTALITY; METHODOLOGY; RURAL AREA; SNOWBALL SAMPLE; URBAN AREA;

COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PILOT PROJECTS; PREGNANCY; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 34547122462     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: 09715916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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