Changing trends on the place of delivery: Why do Nepali women give birth at home?

Reproductive Health

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Shrestha, Saraswoti Kumari ^a   Banu, Bilkis ^a   Khanom, Khursida ^a   Ali, Liaquat ^a   Thapa, Narbada ^b   Stray Pedersen, Babill ^c   Devkota, Bhimsen ^d  

^a Public Health   (Bangladesh)

^b Nepal Army Institute of Health Sciences   (Nepal)

^c OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Changing trends; Home delivery; Institutional delivery; Nepal

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FINANCIAL DEFICIT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CENTER; HOME DELIVERY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNITY WARD; MULTIPARA; NEPAL; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRENATAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HUMANS; NEPAL; PREGNANCY; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867194814     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17424755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4755-9-25     Document Type: Article

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