Patterns of maternal care seeking behaviours in rural Bangladesh

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 823-832

  Moran, Allisyn C ^a,b,c   Winch, Peter J ^a,c   Sultana, Nighat ^a,b   Kalim, Nahid ^b   Afzal, Kazi M ^b   Koblinsky, Marge ^b,c   Arifeen, Shams E ^a,b   Seraji, M Habibur R ^a,b,c   Mannan, Ishtiaq ^a,b,c   Darmstadt, Gary L ^a,c   Baqui, Abdullah H ^a,c   Ahmed, Jahiruddin ^a,b   Ahmed, Saifuddin ^a,b   Ali, Nabeel Ashraf ^a,b   Al Kabir, Ahmed ^a,b   Al Mahmud, Arif Billah ^a,b   Anwar, Tariq ^a,b   Begum, Nazma ^a,b   Black, Robert E ^a,b   Chowdhury, Mohiuddin ^a,b   Das, Milan Krishna ^a,b   Hakim, Zafar Ahmad ^a,b   Haque, A K M Fazlul ^a,b   Hossain, Daniel ^a,b   Rahman, Syed Moshfiqur ^a,b   Rahman, Qazi Sadequr ^a,b   Santosham, Mathuram ^a,b   Siddik, Ashrafuddin ^a,b   more..

^a Project for Advancing Health of Newborns and Mothers (PROJAHNMO)   (Bangladesh)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Care seeking; Maternal health; Obstetric complications

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL HEALTH; RURAL AREA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MATERNAL CARE; MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL AREA;

ADULT; BANGLADESH; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RURAL HEALTH;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 34347263042     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2007.01852.x     Document Type: Article

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