Equity in use of home-based or facility-based skilled obstetric care in rural Bangladesh: An observational study

Lancet

Volumn 367, Issue 9507, 2006, Pages 327-332

  Chowdhury, Mahbub Elahi ^a   Ronsmans, Carine ^b   Killewo, Japhet ^c   Anwar, Iqbal ^a   Gausia, Kaniz ^a   Das Gupta, Sushil ^a   Blum, Lauren S ^a   Dieltiens, Greet ^d   Marshall, Tom ^b   Saha, Sajal ^a   Borghi, Jo ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^d INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; HOME CARE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MIDWIFE; OBSTETRIC CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 31444452662     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68070-7     Document Type: Article

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