Determinants of maternity care services utilization among married adolescents in rural India

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Singh, Prashant Kumar ^a   Rai, Rajesh Kumar ^b   Alagarajan, Manoj ^a   Singh, Lucky ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR POPULATION SCIENCES   (India)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CULTURAL FACTOR; DELIVERY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; POSTNATAL CARE; PRENATAL CARE; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD HEALTH CARE; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH SERVICE; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL WELFARE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INDIA; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MATERNAL WELFARE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PREGNANCY; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857074186     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031666     Document Type: Article

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