Using the community-based health planning and services program to promote skilled delivery in rural Ghana: Socio-demographic factors that influence women utilization of skilled attendants at birth in Northern Ghana

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Sakeah, Evelyn ^a   Doctor, Henry V ^b   McCloskey, Lois ^c   Bernstein, Judith ^c   Yeboah Antwi, Kojo ^c   Mills, Samuel ^d  

^a NAVRONGO HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ghana)

^b Integrated Programme and Oversight Branch Division for Operations United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime   (Nigeria)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Community based service delivery; Ghana; Maternal mortality; Skilled attendants at birth; Women service utilization

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWIFE; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWIFERY; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900836957     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-344     Document Type: Article

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