A prospective key informant surveillance system to measure maternal mortality – findings from indigenous populations in Jharkhand and Orissa, India
Open Access
- 28 February 2008
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Vol. 8 (1) , 6
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-8-6
Abstract
In places with poor vital registration, measurement of maternal mortality and monitoring the impact of interventions on maternal mortality is difficult and seldom undertaken. Mortality ratios are often estimated and policy decisions made without robust evidence. This paper presents a prospective key informant system to measure maternal mortality and the initial findings from the system.Keywords
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