Improving the Measurement of Maternal Mortality: The Sisterhood Method Revisited

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Merdad, Leena ^a,d   Hill, Kenneth ^b   Graham, Wendy ^c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD CENTER FOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DEMOGRAPHIC HEALTH SURVEY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING RELATION; SISTERHOOD METHOD;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MORTALITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SIBLINGS;

EID: 84875663798     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059834     Document Type: Article

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