Access to maternal and perinatal health services: Lessons from successful and less successful examples of improving access to safe delivery and care of the newborn

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 901-909

  De Brouwere, Vincent ^a   Richard, Fabienne ^b   Witter, Sophie ^c  

^a Institut National d'Administration Sanitaire Morocco   (Morocco)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

developing countries; health system; maternal mortality; perinatal mortality

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; HEPARIN; TETANUS TOXOID;

DEVELOPING WORLD; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SURVEY; INFANT MORTALITY; MATERNAL HEALTH;

BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CAMBODIA; COMMUNITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EMERGENCY CARE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; EXPERIENCE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALARIA; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; OBSTETRIC CARE; PERINATAL DEATH; PRENATAL CARE; REFUGEE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REVIEW; TETANUS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 77954750025     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2010.02558.x     Document Type: Review

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