Using the community-based health planning and services program to promote skilled delivery in rural Ghana : socio-demographic factors that influence women utilization of skilled attendants at birth in Ghana (Inglés)

The burden of maternal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa is enormous. In Ghana the maternal mortality ratio was 350 per 100,000 live births in 2010. Skilled birth attendance has been shown to reduce maternal deaths and disabilities, yet in 2010 only 68 of mothers in Ghana gave birth with skilled birth attendants. In 2005, the Ghana Health Service piloted an enhancement of its Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) program, training Community...

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Autor

Evelyn Sakeah;

Henry V Doctor;

Lois McCloskey;

Judith Bernstein;

Kojo Yeboah-Antwi;

Mills,Samuel Lantei;
Fecha del documento
2014/04/10
Tipo de documento
Artículo de periódico
Número del informe
102493
Volumen
1
Total Volume(s)
1
País
Ghana,
Región
Western and Central Africa,
Fecha de divulgación
2016/01/22
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Nom. del doc.
Using the community-based health planning and services program to promote skilled delivery in rural Ghana : socio-demographic factors that influence women utilization of skilled attendants at birth in Ghana
Palabras clave
skilled attendant

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Using the community-based health planning and services program to promote skilled delivery in rural Ghana : socio-demographic factors that influence women utilization of skilled attendants at birth in Ghana (Inglés)

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