Establishment of a Maternal Newborn Health Registry in the Belgaum District of Karnataka, India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pregnancy-related vital registration is important to inform policy to reduce maternal, fetal and newborn mortality, yet few systems for capturing accurate data are available in low-middle income countries where the majority of the mortality occurs. Furthermore, methods to effectively implement high-quality registration systems have not been described. The goal of creating the registry described in this paper was to inform public health policy makers about pregnancy outcomes in our district so that appropriate interventions to improve these outcomes could be undertaken and to position the district to be a leader in pregnancy-related public health research.

Methods

We created a prospective maternal and newborn health registry in Belgaum, Karnataka State, India. To i

SUBMITTER: Kodkany BS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4464217 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature