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Dr. Prata serves as Discussant at PAA 2017

April 10, 2017 / Tomomi Mori / News

The Population Association of America (PAA) is a nonprofit, scientific, professional organization established to promote the improvement, advancement and progress of the human race through research of problems related to human population.

PAA members include demographers, sociologists, economists, public health professionals, and other individuals interested in research and education in the population field.

PAA membership has grown to 3,000 reflecting professional interest in the population field. Members receive Demography, the bi-monthly journal of the Association, and PAA Affairs, the quarterly on-line newsletter.

The Population Association of America Conference 2017 will be held in Chicago, IL from April 27 – 29th.

229 Maternal Health and Mortality

DISCUSSANT: Ndola Prata, University of California, Berkeley
CHAIR: Saifuddin Ahmed, Johns Hopkins University

Topic 4. Health and Mortality
10:45 am–12:15 pm — Waldorf Room
  • 229-1 Timing and Correlates of Pregnancy-Related Death: Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa
    • Leena Merdad, King Abdulaziz University; Mohamed Mahmoud Ali, World Health Organization (WHO)
  • 229-2 Development of a Tool to Measure Person-Centered Care During Labor and Delivery in Developing Settings: Validation in a Rural and an Urban Kenyan Population
    • Patience A. Afulani, University of California, San Francisco; Nadia Diamond-Smith, University of California, San Francisco; May Sudhinaraset, University of California, San Francisco
  • 229-3 A Decomposition of Trends in the Nonmarital Infant Mortality Ratios in the United States: 1983–2010
    • Wen Fan, Boston College; Liying Luo, Pennsylvania State University
  • 229-4 Maternal, Neonatal, and Stillbirth Deaths Caused by Decreased Utilization of Essential Maternal Healthcare in the Context of the 2014 Ebola Epidemic in Sierra Leone
    • Laura Sochas, London School of Economics and Political Science; Andrew Channon, University of Southampton; Sara Nam, Options Consultancy Services

 

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