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Title: | Socio-Economic and Other Variables Affecting Maternal Mortality in Sierra Leone |
Author: | Konteh, Richard |
Year: | 1997 |
Periodical: | The Community Development Journal: An International Journal for Community Workers |
Volume: | 32 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 49-64 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Sierra Leone |
Subjects: | mothers maternal mortality Health, Nutrition, and Medicine Demographics |
External link: | http://cdj.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/32/1/49 |
Abstract: | Over 1,000 women in Sierra Leone die each year of causes related to pregnancy, childbirth or the puerperium. The factors affecting maternal mortality are numerous. Ante and postpartum hemorrhage, ruptured uterus, abruptio placentae, etc. are well-documented causes of maternal mortality in Sierra Leone. There are, however, a number of socioeconomic and other variables that also influence maternal mortality. This paper presents some of these factors. Data was obtained from a survey conducted in twelve villages in Gbendembu Ngowahun Chiefdom, Bombali District, from November 1989 to February 1990. The socioeconomic variables affecting maternal mortality and related indices identified in the study are age and parity, marital status, educational status, religion, and poverty. The other factors are deliveries (where the deliveries are performed and who assists with them), traditional birth attendants, (non)attendance at clinics, attitudes and practices of health personnel, distance from health facility and transportation, and, finally, the inadequate coverage of the Primary Health Care programme activities. Bibliogr., notes, sum. |