Equality in safe delivery and its determinants in Iran

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 446-451

  Moradi Lakeh, Maziar ^a   Ramezani, Mozhdeh ^a   Naghavi, Mohsen ^b  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL EDUCATION   (Iran)

Author keywords

Equality; Iran; Safe delivery; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DELIVERY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IRAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL AGE; OCCUPATION; RURAL AREA; SAFETY; SCHOOL CHILD; SKILL; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN AREA; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; IRAN; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE MIDWIVES; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 35548939838     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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