Women-focused development intervention reduces delays in accessing emergency obstetric care in urban slums in Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Nahar, Shamsun ^a   Banu, Morsheda ^b   Nasreen, Hashima E ^b  

^a National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine   (Bangladesh)

^b RESEARCH AND EVALUATION DIVISION   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BANGLADESH; BLEEDING; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ECLAMPSIA AND PREECLAMPSIA; EMERGENCY CARE; FEAR; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LABOR COMPLICATION; MALPRESENTATION; MANOSHI PROGRAM; MATERNAL CARE; OBSTETRIC CARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PUERPERAL PYREXIA; RANK SUM TEST; RELIGION; RETAINED PLACENTA; SAMPLE SIZE; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; URBAN AREA; AMBULATORY CARE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MIDWIFE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT REFERRAL; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; STATISTICS; TIME; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; BANGLADESH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMMUNITY HEALTH AIDES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDWIFERY; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; OFFICE VISITS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POVERTY AREAS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79251558427     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-11-11     Document Type: Article

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