Maternal mortality in rural south ethiopia: Outcomes of community-based birth registration by health extension workers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Yaya, Yaliso ^a,b   Data, Tadesse ^c   Lindtjørn, Bernt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Arba Minch College of Health Sciences   (Ethiopia)

^c Gamo Gofa Zone Health Department   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; BIRTH RATE; COMMUNITY CARE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHIOPIA; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CENTER; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NURSE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; REGISTER; REGISTRATION; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; VALIDATION STUDY; BIRTH; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH AUXILIARY; LABOR; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICE; PREGNANCY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MALE; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MATERNAL MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; REGISTRIES; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84925843346     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119321     Document Type: Article

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