Antenatal care visit attendance, intermittent preventive treatment and bed net use during pregnancy in Gabon

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Bouyou Akotet, Marielle K ^a,b   Mawili Mboumba, Denise P ^a   Kombila, Maryvonne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES DE LA SANTÉ   (Gabon)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE LIBREVILLE   (Gabon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BED NET; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INSECTICIDE TREATED BED NET; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; PRIMIGRAVIDA; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTIMALARIALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; GABON; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INSECTICIDE-TREATED BEDNETS; MALARIA; MIDWIFERY; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PRENATAL CARE; PYRIMETHAMINE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SULFADOXINE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84874218578     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-13-52     Document Type: Article

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