dc.contributor.author | Wanasolo, Daniel | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-12-30T08:36:16Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-12-30T08:36:16Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-11 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12281/8649 | |
dc.description.abstract | The study analyzed the determinants of maternal mortality in Uganda using Uganda
Demographic and Health Surveys reports and other sources. It was guided by the following
objectives;
(1) To examine the effects of maternal education on maternal mortality in Uganda.
(2) To examine whether mother’s age influences maternal mortality in Uganda.
(3) To assess the effects of socio economic status of mother’s on maternal mortality in Uganda.
The study was mainly carried out using secondary data from the Uganda Demography Health
Survey reports of 2016. Data Analysis was done using stata; univariate frequency tables and
graphs were used, and cross tabulation and chi-square to test the hypotheses.
In the research findings it was found out that maternal mortality is high in mothers who produce
at a tender age. Consequently, mothers with a low level of education are highly subjected to high
rates of maternal deaths as compared to mothers with high education levels. Maternal mortality
is high in rural areas as compared to urban areas due to differences in the access of socio
amenities and health services.
The major recommendations of the study were; improving the quality of antenatal and post-natal
care services in different parts of Uganda, improvement on the availability of medical works in
Uganda so as to reduce on the inefficiency of qualified medical workers, improving girl child
education at all levels so as to reduce on early school drop outs and hence reducing on the
chances of girls being pregnant at a tender age | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Makerere University | en_US |
dc.subject | Maternal mortality | en_US |
dc.subject | Uganda | en_US |
dc.subject | Uganda Demographic and Health Survey | en_US |
dc.subject | Antenatal Care | en_US |
dc.subject | Antiretroviral Therapy | en_US |
dc.subject | HIV/AIDS | en_US |
dc.subject | Millennium Development Goals | en_US |
dc.subject | Health centres | en_US |
dc.subject | Poverty eradication | en_US |
dc.subject | Preventing Mother to Child Transmission | en_US |
dc.subject | Pregnant women | en_US |
dc.title | Analysis of the determinants of maternal mortality in Uganda | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |