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

• मुख्य लेखकों: A. Prual (लेखक), M.-H. B (लेखक), L. de Bernis (लेखक), G. Bréart (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: The World Health Organization.
• विषय: article
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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...