Road map to scaling-up: Translating operations research study's results into actions for expanding medical abortion services in rural health facilities in Nepal

Health Research Policy and Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Puri, Mahesh ^a   Regmi, Shophika ^a   Tamang, Anand ^a   Shrestha, Prabhakar ^a  

^a Center for Research on Environment Health and Population Activities   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Auxiliary nurse midwives; Female community health volunteers; Medical abortion; Nepal; Outreach health facilities

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL ABORTION; NEPAL; NURSE; NURSE MIDWIFE; PATIENT ADVOCACY; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SCALE UP; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

ABORTION, INDUCED; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH FACILITIES; HEALTH PLAN IMPLEMENTATION; HUMANS; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; NEPAL; NURSE MIDWIVES; PREGNANCY; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; VOLUNTEERS;

EID: 84901254016     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4505-12-24     Document Type: Article

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