The role of care-seeking delays in intrauterine fetal deaths among 'Near-miss' women in Herat, Afghanistan

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 388-397

  Hirose, Atsumi ^a   Borchert, Matthias ^a,c   Niksear, Homa ^d   Alkozai, Ahmad S ^e   Gardiner, Julian ^a,b   Filippi, Véronique ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d Regional Hospital   (Afghanistan)

^e WORLD VISION INTERNATIONAL   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Afghanistan; care seeking; delays; fetal death; maternal mortality; near miss; social resources

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; FETUS MORTALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL STATUS; SURVIVAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; CULTURE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; WOMEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864831300     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: 13653016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.2012.01299.x     Document Type: Article

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