Early detection of maternal deaths in Senegal through household-based death notification integrating verbal and social autopsy: A community-level case study

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Moshabela, Mosa ^a   Sene, Massamba ^b   Nanne, Ingrid ^b   Tankoano, Yombo ^b   Schaefer, Jennifer ^c   Niang, Oumulkhairy ^b   Sachs, Sonia Ehrlich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Africa; Community health worker; Maternal mortality; Mhealth; Pathway to survival; Quality improvement; Quality of care; Social autopsy; Verbal autopsy

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; BIRTH; CAUSE OF DEATH; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATERNAL DEATH; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MORTALITY; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENEGAL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; DATA COLLECTION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL DEATH; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PARTURITION; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENEGAL;

EID: 84928105539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-014-0664-4     Document Type: Article

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