Maternal mortality in rural south Ethiopia: outcomes of community-based birth registration by health extension workers.

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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Main Authors: Yaliso Yaya, Tadesse Data, Bernt Lindtjørn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4370399?pdf=render

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