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

BACKGROUND: 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...

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Autores principales: Sakeah, Evelyn, Doctor, Henry V, McCloskey, Lois, Bernstein, Judith, Yeboah-Antwi, Kojo, Mills, Samuel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4020603/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24721385
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-344

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4020603/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24721385
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-344

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