Severe maternal morbidity from direct obstetric causes in West Africa: incidence and case fatality rates

Data on maternal morbidity make it possible to assess how many women are likely to need essential obstetric care, and permit the organization, monitoring and evaluation of safe motherhood programmes. In the present paper we propose operational definitions of severe maternal morbidity and report the...

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Main Authors: A. Prual, M.-H. Bouvier-Colle, L. de Bernis, G. Bréart
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862000000500004&lng=en&tlng=en