Measuring unmet obstetric need at district level: How an epidemiological tool can affect health service organization and delivery

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 19, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2004, Pages

  Guindo, Gabriel ^a   Dubourg, Dominique ^b   Marchal, Bruno ^b   Blaise, Pierre ^b   De Brouwere, Vincent ^b  

^a Ministry of Health   (Mali)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Health care reform; Health service management; Mali; Obstetric need; Reproductive health care

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; MALI; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OBSTETRIC CARE; OBSTETRIC OPERATION; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OBSTETRICS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS;

EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MALI; OBSTETRICS; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 16544387251     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czh049     Document Type: Conference Paper

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