Using the Community-Based Health Planning and Services Program to Promote Skilled Delivery in Rural Ghana : Socio-Demographic Factors that Influence Women Utilization of Skilled Attendants at Birth in Northern Ghana

The burden of maternal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa is enormous. In Ghana the maternal mortality ratio was 350 per 100,000 live births in 2010. Skilled birth attendance has been shown to reduce maternal deaths and disabilities, yet in 2010 only 68% of mothers in Ghana gave birth with skilled birt...

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Main Authors:	Sakeah, Evelyn, Doctor, Henry V., McCloskey, Lois, Bernstein, Judith, Yeboah-Antwi, Kojo, Mills, Samuel
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	BioMed Central 2015
Subjects:	community-based service delivery maternal mortality service utilization skilled birth attendants
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23153

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spelling	okr-10986-231532021-04-23T14:04:13Z Using the Community-Based Health Planning and Services Program to Promote Skilled Delivery in Rural Ghana : Socio-Demographic Factors that Influence Women Utilization of Skilled Attendants at Birth in Northern Ghana Sakeah, Evelyn Doctor, Henry V. McCloskey, Lois Bernstein, Judith Yeboah-Antwi, Kojo Mills, Samuel community-based service delivery maternal mortality service utilization skilled birth attendants The burden of maternal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa is enormous. In Ghana the maternal mortality ratio was 350 per 100,000 live births in 2010. Skilled birth attendance has been shown to reduce maternal deaths and disabilities, yet in 2010 only 68% of mothers in Ghana gave birth with skilled birth attendants. In 2005, the Ghana Health Service piloted an enhancement of its Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) program, training Community Health Officers (CHOs) as midwives, to address the gap in skilled attendance in rural Upper East Region (UER). The study determined the extent to which CHO-midwives skilled delivery program achieved its desired outcomes in UER among birthing women. 2015-11-30T19:07:20Z 2015-11-30T19:07:20Z 2014-04-10 Journal Article BMC Public Health http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23153 en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank BioMed Central Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Africa Ghana
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spellingShingle	community-based service delivery maternal mortality service utilization skilled birth attendants Sakeah, Evelyn Doctor, Henry V. McCloskey, Lois Bernstein, Judith Yeboah-Antwi, Kojo Mills, Samuel Using the Community-Based Health Planning and Services Program to Promote Skilled Delivery in Rural Ghana : Socio-Demographic Factors that Influence Women Utilization of Skilled Attendants at Birth in Northern Ghana
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description	The burden of maternal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa is enormous. In Ghana the maternal mortality ratio was 350 per 100,000 live births in 2010. Skilled birth attendance has been shown to reduce maternal deaths and disabilities, yet in 2010 only 68% of mothers in Ghana gave birth with skilled birth attendants. In 2005, the Ghana Health Service piloted an enhancement of its Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) program, training Community Health Officers (CHOs) as midwives, to address the gap in skilled attendance in rural Upper East Region (UER). The study determined the extent to which CHO-midwives skilled delivery program achieved its desired outcomes in UER among birthing women.
format	Journal Article
author	Sakeah, Evelyn Doctor, Henry V. McCloskey, Lois Bernstein, Judith Yeboah-Antwi, Kojo Mills, Samuel
author_facet	Sakeah, Evelyn Doctor, Henry V. McCloskey, Lois Bernstein, Judith Yeboah-Antwi, Kojo Mills, Samuel
author_sort	Sakeah, Evelyn
title	Using the Community-Based Health Planning and Services Program to Promote Skilled Delivery in Rural Ghana : Socio-Demographic Factors that Influence Women Utilization of Skilled Attendants at Birth in Northern Ghana
title_short	Using the Community-Based Health Planning and Services Program to Promote Skilled Delivery in Rural Ghana : Socio-Demographic Factors that Influence Women Utilization of Skilled Attendants at Birth in Northern Ghana
title_full	Using the Community-Based Health Planning and Services Program to Promote Skilled Delivery in Rural Ghana : Socio-Demographic Factors that Influence Women Utilization of Skilled Attendants at Birth in Northern Ghana
title_fullStr	Using the Community-Based Health Planning and Services Program to Promote Skilled Delivery in Rural Ghana : Socio-Demographic Factors that Influence Women Utilization of Skilled Attendants at Birth in Northern Ghana
title_full_unstemmed	Using the Community-Based Health Planning and Services Program to Promote Skilled Delivery in Rural Ghana : Socio-Demographic Factors that Influence Women Utilization of Skilled Attendants at Birth in Northern Ghana
title_sort	using the community-based health planning and services program to promote skilled delivery in rural ghana : socio-demographic factors that influence women utilization of skilled attendants at birth in northern ghana
publisher	BioMed Central
publishDate	2015
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23153
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Using the Community-Based Health Planning and Services Program to Promote Skilled Delivery in Rural Ghana : Socio-Demographic Factors that Influence Women Utilization of Skilled Attendants at Birth in Northern Ghana

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