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High maternal mortality in Jigawa State, Northern Nigeria estimated using the sisterhood method

BACKGROUND: Maternal mortality is extremely high in Nigeria. Accurate estimation of maternal mortality is challenging in low-income settings such as Nigeria where vital registration is incomplete. The objective of this study was to estimate the lifetime risk (LTR) of maternal death and the maternal...

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Autores principales: Sharma, Vandana, Brown, Willa, Kainuwa, Muhammad Abdullahi, Leight, Jessica, Nyqvist, Martina Bjorkman
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5455121/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28577546
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-017-1341-5