Strategic planning for saving the lives of mothers, newborns and children and preventing stillbirths in KwaZulu-Natal province South Africa: Modelling using the Lives Saved Tool (LiST)

BMC Public Health

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  McGee, Shelley Ann ^a   Chola, Lumbwe ^a   Tugendhaft, Aviva ^a   Mubaiwa, Victoria ^b   Moran, Neil ^b,c   McKerrow, Neil ^b,c   Kamugisha, Leonard ^d   Hofman, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b Department of Health ^*  (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^d UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Child health; Contraception; Cost analysis; Maternal health; Mortality; South Africa; Stillbirths

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; MATERNAL CHILD HEALTH CARE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MOTHER; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOUTH AFRICA; STILLBIRTH;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL-CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY; SOUTH AFRICA; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 84955285527     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-2661-x     Document Type: Article

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