Striving to promote male involvement in maternal health care in rural and urban settings in Malawi - A qualitative study

Reproductive Health

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Kululanga, Lucy I ^a,b   Sundby, Johanne ^a   Malata, Address ^b   Chirwa, Ellen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

Author keywords

care; Malawi; male involvement; maternal health; strategies

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; MALAWI; MALE; MATERNAL CARE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL HEALTH CARE; URBAN AREA; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTACT EXAMINATION; HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SPOUSE; STATISTICS;

ADULT; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; CONTACT TRACING; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALAWI; MALE; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MEN; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL HEALTH; SPOUSES; URBAN HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82455188321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17424755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4755-8-36     Document Type: Article

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