Informal support to first-parents after childbirth: A qualitative study in low-income suburbs of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mbekenga, Columba K ^a,b   Pembe, Andrea B ^a   Christensson, Kyllike ^c   Darj, Elisabeth ^b   Olsson, Pia ^b  

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

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD CARE; CHILDBIRTH; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FAMILY; FATHER; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MOTHER; PARENTHOOD; POVERTY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEX ROLE; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STEREOTYPY; TANZANIA; CHILD PARENT RELATION; HEALTH EDUCATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PARITY; POPULATION; PREGNANCY;

FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; MALE; PARENTING; PARITY; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUBURBAN POPULATION; TANZANIA;

EID: 82255170821     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-11-98     Document Type: Article

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