Community-based skilled birth attendants in Bangladesh: attending deliveries at home

Reproductive Health Matters

Volumn 17, Issue 33, 2009, Pages 45-50

  Ahmed, Tahera ^a   Jakaria, SM ^a  

^a UNFPA Bangladesh   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; community based programmes; maternal mortality; mid level providers; skilled birth attendants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNITY; DELIVERY; FAMILY PLANNING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MIDWIFE; MIDWIFERY EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL;

BANGLADESH; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; FEMALE; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HUMANS; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MIDWIFERY; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PILOT PROJECTS; PREGNANCY; PROGRAM EVALUATION;

EID: 66449121426     PISSN: 09688080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-8080(09)33446-1     Document Type: Article

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