Can Community Health Officer-Midwives Effectively Integrate Skilled Birth Attendance in the Community-Based Health Planning and Services Program in Rural Ghana?
The burden of maternal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa is very high. In Ghana maternal mortality ratio was 380 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2013. Skilled birth attendance has been shown to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity, yet in 2010 only 68 percent of mothers in Ghana gave birth with t...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | en_US |
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BioMed Central
2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23144 |