Productivity cost due to maternal ill health in Sri Lanka

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Agampodi, Suneth ^a   Agampodi, Thilini ^a   Wickramasinghe, Nuwan ^a   Fernando, Santhushya ^a   Chathurani, Umanga ^a   Adhikari, Wathsala ^a   Dharshika, Ishani ^a   Nugegoda, Dhanaseela ^a   Dharmaratne, Samath ^b   Newlands, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CANDIDIASIS; COLD; COST; COUGHING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; DYSURIA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEG PAIN; LEG SWELLING; MATERNAL DISEASE; MATERNAL WELFARE; MUSCLE CRAMP; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRODUCTIVITY; PRODUCTIVITY COST; SRI LANKA; VAGINA BLEEDING; VARICOSIS; VERTIGO;

ADULT; COST OF ILLNESS; EFFICIENCY; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL WELFARE; PREGNANCY; SRI LANKA;

EID: 84864546465     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042333     Document Type: Article

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