Improved access to comprehensive emergency obstetric care and its effect on institutional maternal mortality in rural Mali

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 30-38

  Fournier, Pierre ^a   Dumont, Alexandre ^b   Tourigny, Caroline ^a   Dunkley, Geoffrey ^c   Dramé, Sékou ^c  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^c Direction Régionale de la Santé   (Mali)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEVELOPING WORLD; HEALTH EXPENDITURE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES; MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PUBLIC ACCESS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CESAREAN SECTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DYSTOCIA; ECLAMPSIA; EMERGENCY CARE; FATALITY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALI; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL SERVICE; OBSTETRIC CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREECLAMPSIA; PUERPERAL INFECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL HEALTH CARE; UTERUS RUPTURE;

AFRICA; MALI; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 61449208890     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.07.047076     Document Type: Article

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