Community attitudes to pregnancy, anaemia, iron and folate supplementation in urban and rural Lagos, south-western Nigeria

Midwifery

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 89-95

  Ejidokun, Oluwatoyin O ^a  

^a Dudley Health Authority   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIANEMIC AGENT; FOLIC ACID; IRON;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY CARE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; NIGERIA; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; HEMATINICS; HUMANS; IRON; NIGERIA; POVERTY AREAS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0034207895     PISSN: 02666138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/midw.1999.0196     Document Type: Article

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