Rural Tanzanian women's awareness of danger signs of obstetric complications

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Pembe, Andrea B ^a,b   Urassa, David P ^a   Carlstedt, Anders ^b,c   Lindmark, Gunilla ^b   Nyström, Lennarth ^d   Darj, Elisabeth ^b  

^a MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MATERNAL AGE; OBSTETRIC CARE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PRENATAL CARE; RURAL POPULATION; TANZANIA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERVIEW; LABOR COMPLICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; TANZANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65249090822     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-9-12     Document Type: Article

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