Maternal mortality in rural south Ethiopia: outcomes of community-based birth registration by health extension workers.
Rural communities in low-income countries lack vital registrations to track birth outcomes. We aimed to examine the feasibility of community-based birth registration and measure maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in rural south Ethiopia.In 2010, health extension workers (HEWs) registered births and mate...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2015-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4370399?pdf=render |