Assessment of maternal mortality in Tanzania

ABSTRACT Objective To assess maternal mortality. Design Prospective community‐based survey, a sisterhood method survey and hospital data. Setting The study was performed in communities in a rural area in Northwestern Tanzania and the local district hospital. Results Four hundred and forty‐seven preg...

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Veröffentlicht in:BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology 1994-05, Vol.101 (5), p.414-417
Hauptverfasser: Walraven, G. E. L., Mkanje, R. J. B., Roosmalen, J., Dongen, P. W. J., Dolmans, W. M. V.
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Zusammenfassung:ABSTRACT Objective To assess maternal mortality. Design Prospective community‐based survey, a sisterhood method survey and hospital data. Setting The study was performed in communities in a rural area in Northwestern Tanzania and the local district hospital. Results Four hundred and forty‐seven pregnant women in the community survey were followed up as far as six weeks after delivery; there were 2865 respondents in the sisterhood survey; the hospital study involved 7526 deliveries. Maternal morality ratios derived from the prospective community‐based survey, the sisterhood method survey and hospital data analysis were 241, 297, and 845 per 100000 live births, respectively. Conclusions Hospital data tend to overestimate maternal mortality in these communities. The sisterhood method is easier and more convenient than a prospective community‐based study.
ISSN:1470-0328
0306-5456
1471-0528
1365-215X
DOI:10.1111/j.1471-0528.1994.tb11914.x