The inequality of maternal health care in urban sub-Saharan Africa in the 1990s

Population Studies

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 347-366

  Magadi, Monica Akinyi ^a   Zulu, Eliya Msiyaphazi ^b   Brockerhoff, Martin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b AFRICAN POPULATION AND HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER   (Kenya)

^c POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenatal care; Delivery care; Unintended childbearing; Urban inequalities; Urban poverty

Indexed keywords

EQUITY; HEALTH CARE; MATERNAL HEALTH; WOMENS HEALTH;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HISTORY; HUMAN; MATERNAL WELFARE; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MATERNAL WELFARE; POVERTY AREAS; PREGNANCY; URBAN HEALTH;

AFRICA;

EID: 0344552258     PISSN: 00324728     EISSN: 14774747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0032472032000137853     Document Type: Article

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