Home birth attendants in low income countries: who are they and what do they do?

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Garces, Ana ^a   McClure, Elizabeth M ^b   Chomba, Elwyn ^c   Patel, Archana ^d   Pasha, Omrana ^e   Tshefu, Antoinette ^f   Esamai, Fabian ^g   Goudar, Shivaprasad ^h   Lokangaka, Adrien ^f   Hambidge, K M ⁱ   Wright, Linda L ^j   Koso Thomas, Marion ^j   Bose, Carl ^k   Carlo, Waldemar A ^l   Liechty, Edward A ^m   Hibberd, Patricia L ⁿ   Bucher, Sherri ^m   Whitworth, Ryan ^b   Goldenberg, Robert L ^o  

^a IMSALUD   (Guatemala)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Zambia)

^d Indira Ghandi College of Medicine   (India)

^e AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^f Kinshasa School of Public Health   (Congo)

^g MOI UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^h JAWAHARLAL NEHRU MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^j EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^m INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^o Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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Author keywords

Home births; Perinatal mortality; Traditional birth attendants

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE METER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOME BIRTH ATTENDANT; HOME DELIVERY; HUMAN; INTRAPARTUM CARE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL DEVICE; NEWBORN DEATH; NURSE MIDWIFE; PRENATAL PERIOD; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PUERPERIUM; RESUSCITATOR; STETHOSCOPE;

COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FETAL MORTALITY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MIDWIFERY; POVERTY; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE;

EID: 84860806374     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-12-34     Document Type: Article

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