The impacts of maternal mortality and cause of death on children's risk of dying in rural South Africa: Evidence from a population based surveillance study (1992-2013)

Reproductive Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Houle, Brian ^a,b,c   Clark, Samuel J ^b,c,d,e   Kahn, Kathleen ^b,c,e,f   Tollman, Stephen ^b,c,e,f   Yamin, Alicia Ely ^g  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e Iganga Mayuge Health and Demographic Surveillance Site   (Ghana)

^f UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Child mortality; health and demographic surveillance system; HIV; Infant mortality; Maternal mortality; rural; South Africa

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; MALE; MATERNAL DEATH; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MORTALITY RISK; MOTHER; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; SOUTH AFRICA; SURVIVAL; SURVIVOR; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH; INFANT MORTALITY; MATERNAL AGE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ORPHANED CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, ORPHANED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL DEATH; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84977565443     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17424755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4755-12-S1-S7     Document Type: Review

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