Practices of traditional birth attendants in Machakos District, Kenya

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 495-502

  Kaingu, Catherine Kaluwa ^a   Oduma, Jemimah Achieng ^a   Kanui, Titus I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Kenya; Medicinal plants; Pregnancy complications; Traditional Birth Attendants

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ABORTION; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; BREAST MILK; CHILDBIRTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNITY LIVING; COMPOSITAE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDEMA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUPHORBIA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; IMMINENT ABORTION; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INTERVIEW; KENYA; LABOR COMPLICATION; LEGUME; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PATIENT REFERRAL; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PUERPERIUM; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; RURAL AREA; RUTACEAE; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANT; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; FOLKLORE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; KENYA; MALE; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWIFERY; PLANT PREPARATIONS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EUPHORBIACEAE;

EID: 80052031068     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2011.05.044     Document Type: Article

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