Community empowerment: CDC collaboration with the CARE Community-Based Reproductive Health Project in two districts in Tanzania

Journal of Women's Health and Gender-Based Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1015-1019

  Ahluwalia, Indu ^a   Kouletio, Michelle ^b   Curtis, Kate ^a   Schmid, Thomas ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^b Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere ^*  (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COMMUNITY CARE; COOPERATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; NEWBORN; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SHORT SURVEY; TANZANIA; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION; ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MANAGEMENT; MORTALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; UNITED STATES;

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PLANNING ORGANIZATIONS; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; POLICY MAKING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; TANZANIA; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 0033210189     PISSN: 15246094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jwh.1.1999.8.1015     Document Type: Short Survey

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