Waiting for attention and care: Birthing accounts of women in rural Tanzania who developed obstetric fistula as an outcome of labour

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mselle, Lilian T ^a   Kohi, Thecla W ^a   Mvungi, Abu ^b   Evjen Olsen, Bjørg ^c,d   Moland, Karen M ^e  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

^c Centre for International Health   (Norway)

^d SØRLANDET HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^e BERGEN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CYSTOVAGINAL FISTULA; DELIVERY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LABOR COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL CARE; MOTHER; NEGLECT; OBSTETRIC CARE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT TRANSPORT; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; RURAL AREA; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SPOUSE; TANZANIA; ADOLESCENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECTUM FISTULA; RURAL POPULATION; URINARY TRACT FISTULA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECTAL FISTULA; RURAL POPULATION; TANZANIA; URINARY FISTULA; WAITING LISTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054718029     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-11-75     Document Type: Article

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