Dead mothers and injured wives: The social context of maternal morbidity and mortality among the Hausa of Northern Nigeria

Studies in Family Planning

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 341-359

  Wall, L Lewis ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER ISSUE; ISLAMISM; MATERNAL HEALTH; MATERNAL MORTALITY; WOMENS STATUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AFRICAN MEDICINE; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BELIEFS; CAUSES OF DEATH; CHILD; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASES; ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; ECONOMIC FACTORS; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICA; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICES EVALUATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ILLITERATES--WOMEN; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LABOR; LABOR COMPLICATION; LITERATURE REVIEW; MACROECONOMIC FACTORS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MARRIAGE AGE; MARRIAGE PATTERNS; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY--DETERMINANTS; MORBIDITY--WOMEN; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NIGERIA; NUPTIALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATRIARCHY; POLITICAL FACTORS; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POWER--MEN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; PROGRAMS; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS; RELIGION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH--WOMEN; SEXISM; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; VALUE ORIENTATION; WESTERN AFRICA; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S STATUS;

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; BEHAVIOR; BELIEFS; CAUSES OF DEATH; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; CULTURE; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; ECONOMIC FACTORS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICA; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICES EVALUATION; ILLITERATES--WOMEN; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LITERATURE REVIEW; MACROECONOMIC FACTORS; MARRIAGE; MARRIAGE AGE; MARRIAGE PATTERNS; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY--DETERMINANTS; MORBIDITY--WOMEN; MORTALITY; NIGERIA; NUPTIALITY; ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION; PATRIARCHY; POLITICAL FACTORS; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POWER--MEN; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROGRAMS; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH--WOMEN; SEX DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; VALUE ORIENTATION; WESTERN AFRICA; WOMEN'S STATUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISLAM; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; NIGERIA; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

NIGERIA;

EID: 0032435187     PISSN: 00393665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/172248     Document Type: Article

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