In low-resource settings, a social autopsy tool has been proposed to measure the effect of delays in access to healthcare on deaths, complementing verbal autopsy questionnaires routinely used to determine cause of death. This study estimates the contribution of various delays in maternal healthcare to subsequent neonatal mortality using a social autopsy case–control design.

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Effect of Delays in Maternal Access to Healthcare on Neonatal Mortality in Sierra Leone: A Social Autopsy Case–Control Study at a Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) Site

Authors: Jessica P. Preslar, Mary Claire Worrell, Reinhard Kaiser, Carrie Jo Cain, Solomon Samura, Amara Jambai, Pratima L. Raghunathan, Kevin Clarke, David Goodman, Lauren Christiansen-Lindquist, Amy Webb-Girard, Michael Kramer, Robert Breiman