Chikotsa - Secrets, silence, and hiding: Social risk and reproductive vulnerability in central Mozambique

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 487-515

  Chapman, Rachel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Inequality; Mozambique; Prenatal care; Social risk

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENTIALITY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MIDDLE AGED; MOZAMBIQUE; NEWBORN; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WITCHCRAFT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CONFIDENTIALITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MIDDLE AGED; MOZAMBIQUE; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; WITCHCRAFT;

EID: 33751330919     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.2006.20.4.487     Document Type: Article

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