A prospective key informant surveillance system to measure maternal mortality - Findings from indigenous populations in Jharkhand and Orissa, India

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Barnett, Sarah ^a   Nair, Nirmala ^b   Tripathy, Prasanta ^b   Borghi, Jo ^c   Rath, Suchitra ^b   Costello, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine ^*  (India)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIRTH; BIRTH RATE; BLEEDING; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COST; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INDIA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; LIVE BIRTH; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL PERIOD; REGISTRATION; ADULT; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH SERVICE; LABOR COMPLICATION; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL MORTALITY; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 41149090851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-8-6     Document Type: Article

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