Maternal Mortality Among the Kassena‐Nankana of Northern Ghana

This report presents key findings from a maternal mortality study conducted in the Kassena‐Nankana District of northern Ghana in 1997–98. Sibling history data collected in the course of this survey are analyzed together with longitudinal data from the Navrongo Demographic Surveillance System (NDSS). A comparison between mortality data from these two sources indicates that obtaining reasonably accurate estimates of age‐specific death rates is possible by using the sisterhood method. Direct and indirect estimates from the maternal mortality study and the NDSS suggest a decline in the maternal mortality ratio for the Kassena‐Nankana District from 800 to 600 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births over the past 14 years

Child mortality · Environmental health · Geography · Mortality rate · Population · Research methodology · Sibling · Demography · Global Maternal and Child Health · HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses · Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management · Medicine

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