Obstetric outcome of teenage pregnancy in northwestern Ethiopia

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 138-140

  Kumbi, S ^a   Isehak, A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GONDAR   (Ethiopia)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c NONE   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFANT MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; YOUNG POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; DYSTOCIA; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; FETUS OUTCOME; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENTAL DELIVERY; LABOR; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL CARE; STILLBIRTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 0032590127     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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