Household characteristics affecting where mothers deliver in rural Kenya

Health Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 333-340

  Hodgkin, Dominic ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Demand models; Financing; Maternity; Public health facilities; Traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DELIVERY; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISTANCE; EASTERN AFRICA; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMICS; ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS; FAMILY SIZE; FEES; FEMALE; FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME DELIVERY; HUMAN; KENYA; METHODOLOGY; MIDWIFE; MOTHER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOMES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL STUDIES; STATISTICS; STUDIES; TIME; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CORRELATION STUDIES; DELIVERY; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISTANCE; EASTERN AFRICA; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICA; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS; FEES; FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; HEALTH; HEALTH FACILITIES; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; KENYA; MIDWIVES; MOTHERS; PARENTS; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOMES; REPRODUCTION; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICAL STUDIES; STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; KENYA; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 0030178864     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1050(199607)5:4<333::AID-HEC202>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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