Measuring maternal near-miss in a middle-income country: assessing the use of WHO and sub-Saharan Africa maternal near-miss criteria in Namibia

Measuring maternal near-miss in a middle-income country: assessing the use of WHO and sub-Saharan Africa maternal near-miss criteria in Namibia

Background: Namibia, a middle-income country in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), plans to use the Maternal Near Miss (MNM) approach. Adaptations of the World Health Organization (WHO) MNM defining criteria (‘WHO MNM criteria’) were previously proposed for low-income settings in sub-Saharan Africa (‘SSA MNM...

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Main Authors: Steffie Heemelaar, Leonard Kabongo, Taati Ithindi, Christian Luboya, Fidelis Munetsi, Ann-Kathrin Bauer, Amelie Dammann, Anna Drewes, Jelle Stekelenburg, Thomas van den Akker, Shonag Mackenzie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2019-01-01
Series:Global Health Action
Subjects:
maternal morbidity
severe maternal outcome
near-miss approach
morbidity registration
middle-income setting
sub-saharan africa maternal near-miss criteria
who maternal near-miss criteria
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2019.1646036

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2019.1646036

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