The impact of Community-Based Health and Family Planning Services on Maternal Mortality: The Navrongo Baseline Study

Location          :Navrongo - Ghana

Investigators  :Pierre Ngom, Patricia Akweongo, Philip Adongo, and Bawah Ayaga Agula.

Collaboration   :The Department of Social Welfare (Accra)
                       Navrongo Health Research Centre

Funding             :African Sustainable Development Career Award Program,
                       Rockefeller Foundation (grant RF 95022 #657)

Period Covered:1997

 SUMMARY          RESULTS

SUMMARY

This research project collected sibling history data and complemented them with longitudinal data from the Navrongo Demographic Surveillance System. 

RESULTS

The level of maternal mortality for the 14-year period preceding July 1997 was 800 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. With respect to causes of death, it was found that 75% of all maternal deaths that occurred in 1995-96 were due to direct obstetric causes.