[Field performance of the sisterhood method for measuring maternal mortality]. / Evaluacion del trabajo de campo del metodo de la sobrevivencia de hermanas para medir la mortalitdad materna.
Notas Poblacion
; 26(46-47): 77-103, 1988.
Article
in Es
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-12282696
PIP: Reducing maternal mortality has now been declared a health priority in many developing countries. Translating rhetoric into action requires inputs of scarce resources. Information plays an essential role in the planning, management and evaluation of action. In many developing countries, reliable and timely information is also a scarce resource and the short term prospects for significant improvement of the conventional sources of data on maternal mortality are not encouraging. Alternative and complementary methods for generating information are required which recognize the needs and constraints of developing countries. Indirect techniques for demographic estimation have made a considerable contribution to our knowledge of child and adult mortality in these circumstances. This paper describes a new indirect technique, the sisterhood method, for estimating maternal mortality and the results of the first 2 field trials in Gambia and Peru. (Author's).^ieng
Key words
Africa; Africa South Of The Sahara; Americas; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; English Speaking Africa; Estimation Technics; Family And Household; Family Characteristics; Family Relationships; Gambia; Indirect Estimation Technics; Latin America; Maternal Mortality; Mortality; Peru; Population; Population Dynamics; Research Methodology; Siblings; South America; Western Africa
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Nuclear Family
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Maternal Mortality
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Statistics as Topic
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Developing Countries
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Aspects:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
Country/Region as subject:
Africa
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America do sul
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Peru
Language:
Es
Journal:
Notas Poblacion
Year:
1988
Document type:
Article
Country of publication:
Costa Rica