Mapping Maternal Mortality Rate Via Spatial Zero-inflated Models for Count Data: A Case Study of Facility-based Maternal Deaths from Mozambique

Overview

Journal PLoS One

Specialties General Medicine
Science

Date 2018 Nov 10

PMID 30412633

Citations 5

Authors

Osvaldo Loquiha

Niel Hens

Leonardo Chavane

Marleen Temmerman

Nafissa Osman

Christel Faes

Marc Aerts

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Abstract

Maternal mortality remains very high in Mozambique, with estimates from 2015 showing a maternal mortality ratio of 489 deaths per 100,000 live births, even though the rates tend to decrease since 1990. Pregnancy related hemorrhage, gestational hypertension and diseases such as malaria and HIV/AIDS are amongst the leading causes of maternal death in Mozambique, and a significant number of these deaths occur within health facilities. Often, the analysis of data on maternal mortality involves the use of counts of maternal deaths as outcome variable. Previously we showed that a class of hierarchical zero-inflated models were very successful in dealing with overdispersion and clustered counts when analyzing data on maternal deaths and related risk factors within health facilities in Mozambique. This paper aims at providing additional insights over previous analyses and presents an extension of such models to account for spatial variation in a disease mapping framework of facility-based maternal mortality in Mozambique.

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