The long term economic impact of severe obstetric complications for women and their children in Burkina Faso.

ABSTRACT: This study investigates the long term economic impact of severe obstetric complications for women and their children in Burkina Faso, focusing on measures of food security, expenditures and related quality of life measures. It uses a hospital based cohort, first visited in 2004/2005 and followed up four years later. This cohort of 1014 women consisted of two main groups of comparison: 677 women who had an uncomplicated delivery and 337 women who experienced a severe obstetric complication which would have almost certainly caused death had they not received hospital care (labelled a "near miss" event). To analyze the impact of such near miss events as well as the possible interaction with the pregnancy outcome, we compared household and individual level indicators between women without a ne

SUBMITTER: Ilboudo PG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3818276 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature