Women's empowerment and male involvement in antenatal care: Analyses of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in selected African countries

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Jennings, Larissa ^a   Na, Muzi ^a   Cherewick, Megan ^a   Hindin, Michelle ^a   Mullany, Britta ^a   Ahmed, Saifuddin ^a  

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

Author keywords

Antenatal care; Autonomy; Demographic health survey; Male involvement; Maternal health; Pregnancy; Sub saharan africa; Women's empowerment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AFRICAN; ARTICLE; BURKINA FASO; BURUNDI; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMPOWERMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAWI; MALE; MATERNAL CARE; MOZAMBIQUE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRENATAL CARE; RWANDA; SENEGAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; UGANDA; ZIMBABWE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; COOPERATION; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; INCOME; PSYCHOLOGY; SPOUSE;

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PRENATAL CARE; SPOUSES; WOMEN;

EID: 84908075262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-14-297     Document Type: Article

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