Unravelling the conundrums of social autopsy for maternal mortality in low- and middle-income countries

Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas^{1

2}, Adedoyin Ogunyemi^{1

2

3}, Adeyemi Okunowo^{2

4}, Ololade Wright⁵, Celso Monjane⁶, Fatimat M Akinlusi⁷, Brenda Isikekpei², Phillip Wanduru^{8

9}, Rachel A Thompson², Ndubuisi Ezumezu², Bosede B Afolabi^{2

4}

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
² Centre for Clinical Trials, Research, and Implementation Science, College of Medicine University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria.
³ Department of Community Health and Primary Care, College of Medicine. University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria.
⁴ Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, College of Medicine University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria.
⁵ Department of Community Health and Primary Health Care, Lagos State University College of Medicine, Lagos, Nigeria.
⁶ Instituto Nacional de Saude, Maputo, Mozambique.
⁷ Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Lagos State University College of Medicine, Lagos, Nigeria.
⁸ School of Public Health, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda.
⁹ Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas et al. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2025.

. 2025 Mar 6;5(3):e0004295.

doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0004295. eCollection 2025.

¹ Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
² Centre for Clinical Trials, Research, and Implementation Science, College of Medicine University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria.
³ Department of Community Health and Primary Care, College of Medicine. University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria.
⁴ Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, College of Medicine University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria.
⁵ Department of Community Health and Primary Health Care, Lagos State University College of Medicine, Lagos, Nigeria.
⁶ Instituto Nacional de Saude, Maputo, Mozambique.
⁷ Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Lagos State University College of Medicine, Lagos, Nigeria.
⁸ School of Public Health, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda.
⁹ Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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