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| Title |
Maternal Death in Rural Ghana: A Case Study in the Upper East Region of Ghana
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Public Health, April 2018
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpubh.2018.00101 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Paschal Awingura Apanga, John Koku Awoonor-Williams |
| Abstract |
Maternal mortality remains a challenge in providing quality maternal and other reproductive healthcare services in Ghana. This is a case investigation of a maternal death in rural Ghana that seeks to unravel the circumstances that lead to her death. We conducted three in-depth interviews with healthcare staff as well as a focused group discussion comprising of six relatives of the deceased, including her husband. The investigation revealed that lack of logistics, medical, and laboratory equipment, inadequate knowledge about the benefits of antenatal care services as well as non-adherence of healthcare workers to treatment protocols and standard operating procedures were found as major setbacks to the provision of effective and quality maternal healthcare services in Ghana. It is, therefore, imperative for the Government of Ghana and other Non-Governmental Organizations to invest in strengthening the healthcare delivery system especially in rural Ghana by making available basic logistics, medical, and laboratory equipment, as well as improving upon maternal health education, and consistently organizing capacity building training programs for healthcare workers. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 2 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 50% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 380 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 380 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 73 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 65 | 17% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 23 | 6% |
| Researcher | 20 | 5% |
| Other | 17 | 4% |
| Other | 36 | 9% |
| Unknown | 146 | 38% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 91 | 24% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 44 | 12% |
| Social Sciences | 22 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 2% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 9 | 2% |
| Other | 51 | 13% |
| Unknown | 154 | 41% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 September 2022.
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#6,436,519
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Outputs from Frontiers in Public Health
#2,171
of 11,006 outputs
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#111,832
of 330,289 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Public Health
#57
of 116 outputs
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