Community-Based Model for Preventing Maternal-Mortality&Newborn-Death

Cause-specific maternal mortality and newborn death information are vitally important for prevention, but little is known about the causes of deaths in most developing nations. Many maternal mortalities and newborn deaths occur at home, outside the formal health sector, and few are attended by qualified medical professionals. Despite the fact that, non-medical factors are often more important in determining whether a woman/newborn lives or dies than the medical cause of death itself. A community-based-retrospective approach using explorative, descriptive and contextual study design used to make an in-depth investigation and analysis of the circumstances and events surrounding individual cases of maternal mortality and newborn deaths. The result outlined bases for forwarding concept analysis, and a prototype model was developed according to Chinn and Kramer's approach to theory generation. The structure and process of a model to avert maternal mortality and newborn death were described; and, six survey list; namely, agent, recipient, context, procedure, dynamic and terminus of Dickoff, James and Wiedenbach form the basis for development and description of the model.