The Immediate Economic Impact of Maternal Deaths on Rural Chinese Households

Fang Ye, Haijun Wang, Dale Huntington, Hong Zhou, Yan Li, Fengzhi You, Jinhua Li, Wenlong Cui, Meiling Yao, Yan Wang and the study team for Economic Impact of Maternal Deaths in China

PLOS ONE, 2012, vol. 7, issue 6, 1-7

Abstract: Objective: To identify the immediate economic impact of maternal death on rural Chinese households. Methods: Results are reported from a study that matched 195 households who had suffered a maternal death to 384 households that experienced a childbirth without maternal death in rural areas of three provinces in China, using quantitative questionnaire to compare differences of direct and indirect costs between two groups. Findings: The direct costs of a maternal death were significantly higher than the costs of a childbirth without a maternal death (US$4,119 vs. $370, p

Date: 2012
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