Inequity in maternal health-care services: Evidence from home-based skilled-birth-attendant programmes in Bangladesh

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 252-259

  Anwar, I ^a   Sami, M ^a   Akhtar, N ^a   Chowdhury, M E ^a   Salma, U ^b   Rahman, M ^c   Koblinsky, M ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b NGO Service Delivery Program   (Bangladesh)

^c Bangladesh Association for Voluntary Sterilization   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; MATERNAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MATERNAL CARE; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

BANGLADESH; CESAREAN SECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HUMANS; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; MIDWIFERY; PREGNANCY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 42049112989     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.07.042754     Document Type: Article

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