Maternal death surveillance efforts: notification and review coverage rates in 30 low-income and middle-income countries, 2015-2019.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Performance of maternal death surveillance and response (MDSR) relies on the system's ability to identify and notify all maternal deaths and its ability to review all maternal deaths by a committee. Unified definitions for indicators to assess these functions are lacking. We aim to estimate notification and review coverage rates in 30 countries between 2015 and 2019 using standardised definitions.

Design

Repeat cross-sectional surveys provided the numerators for the coverage indicators; United Nations (UN)-modelled expected country maternal deaths provided the denominators.

Setting

30 low-income and middle-income countries responding to the Maternal Health Thematic Fund annual surveys conducted by the UN Population Fund between 2015 and 2019.

Outcome meas

SUBMITTER: Serbanescu F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9944275 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature