Establishing midwifery in low-resource settings: Guidance from a mixed-methods evaluation of the Afghanistan midwifery education program

Midwifery

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1056-1062

  Zainullah, Partamin ^a   Ansari, Nasratullah ^a   Yari, Khalid ^b   Azimi, Mahmood ^c   Turkmani, Sabera ^a   Azfar, Pashtoon ^d   LeFevre, Amnesty ^e   Mungia, Jaime ^a   Gubin, Rehana ^a   Kim, Young Mi ^a   Bartlett, Linda ^e  

^a JHPIEGO   (United States)

^b UNICEF   (United States)

^c MSH House at 24   (Afghanistan)

^d International Confederation of Midwives   (India)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Afghanistan; Midwifery; Pre service education

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDWIFE; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDS;

AFGHANISTAN; CURRICULUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDWIFERY; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84907690715     PISSN: 02666138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2013.10.026     Document Type: Article

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