Are Women Deciding against Home Births in Low and Middle Income Countries?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Johnson, Fiifi Amoako ^a   Padmadas, Sabu S ^a   Matthews, Zoë ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOME DELIVERY; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; LOW INCOME COUNTRY; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; PARITY; PRENATAL CARE; PROBABILITY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 84879064804     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065527     Document Type: Article

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