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Model-Based Small Area Estimation of Regional-Level Maternal Mortality Prevalence in Ghana

  • Dioggban Jakperik ORCID logo EMAIL logo , Queensley Chidimma Chukwudum ORCID logo and Michael Jackson Adjabui
Published/Copyright: May 29, 2023
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Abstract

The study involved 1240 women covering the ten administrative regions of Ghana. The aim was to study the prevalence of maternal mortality and its distribution across the ten regions based on given demographic factors. Three main analytical methods were used: Direct estimation method, Fay-Herriot method and Binary Logistic regression. The study revealed that prevalence of maternal mortality in Ghana was high among women engaged in manual works, rural dwellers, women living without partners and women living in pro-poor families. The Northern region had the highest number of maternal deaths followed by the Western region whilst the Ashanti and the Upper East regions had the lowest number of maternal deaths. There is therefore the need for Ghana Health Service to engage all stakeholders in checking maternal mortality in the country.


Corresponding author: Dioggban Jakperik, Department of Biometry, C. K. Tedam University of Technology and Applied Sciences, Navrongo, Box 24, Ghana, E-mail:

Acknowledgement

The authors are grateful to the Ghana Statistical Service for the data used for the research.

  1. Research funding: The authors received no funding for this work.

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Received: 2022-12-06
Accepted: 2023-05-10
Published Online: 2023-05-29
Published in Print: 2023-06-27

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