Maternal mortality in Kassala State - Eastern Sudan: Community-based study using Reproductive age mortality survey (RAMOS)

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mohammed, Abdalla A ^a   Elnour, Mahgoub H ^b   Mohammed, Eltayeb E ^a   Ahmed, Samah A ^c   Abdelfattah, Ahmed I ^a  

^a University of Kassala   (Sudan)

^b Kassala State Ministry of Health   (Sudan)

^c Ministry of Health   (Sudan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LABOR COMPLICATION; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; OBSTETRIC HEMORRHAGE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PUERPERAL FEVER; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE AGE MORTALITY SURVEY; RURAL AREA; SAMPLE SIZE; SEPSIS; SPOUSE; SUDAN; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; URBAN AREA; ADOLESCENT; AGE; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; MORTALITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANEMIA; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; SUDAN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83455203539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-11-102     Document Type: Article

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