Strengthening public health priority-setting through research on fistula, maternal health, and health inequities

International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 99, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages

  Bangser, M ^a  

^a Women's Dignity Project   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Health inequity; Maternal mortality; Obstetric fistula

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK FACTOR; VAGINA DISEASE;

EID: 34548821868     PISSN: 00207292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijgo.2007.06.016     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. World Health Organization. Health dimensions of sex and reproduction: the global burden of disease (1998), WHO, Geneva, Switzerland 253
2. Women's Dignity Project. Faces of dignity (2003), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 2-3
3. This study is being conducted by the Women's Dignity Project, EngenderHealth (USA), three NGOs/hospitals in Tanzania, and three NGOs/hospitals in Uganda. Funding is provided largely by the Department of International Development, London, UK.
4. This study was conducted in partnership with the Ministry of Health in Tanzania, and with funding from the United Nations Population Fund and The Ford Foundation.
5. Author's note: in 2005, 1058 fistula repairs were done in Tanzania, marking significant progress in making treatment more available to girls and women living with the condition.
6. This study is being conducted in collaboration with CARE/Tanzania.
7. National Bureau of Statistics and Macro International: 2004/5 Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey. 2005.
8. This study was conducted in collaboration with the Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre, Tanzania. The author is Paul Smithson.
9. National Bureau of Statistics and Macro International: 1999 Tanzania Reproductive and Child Health Survey. 2000.
10. National Bureau of Statistics. National Population and Housing Census (2002)
11. National Sentinel Surveillance System and Adult Morbidity and Mortality Project Working Paper No. 1, Ministry of health. 2001.
12. National Sentinel Surveillance System and Adult Morbidity and Mortality Project Working Paper No. 2, Ministry of health. 2002.
13. National Bureau of Statistics. Household budget survey 2000/01 (2002) [Location of study]
14. In: Kim J.Y., Millen J.V., Irwin A., and Gershman J. (Eds). Dying for growth: global inequality and the health of the poor (2000), Common Courage, Monroe, ME 106