Determinants of delays in travelling to an emergency obstetric care facility in Herat, Afghanistan: An analysis of cross-sectional survey data and spatial modelling

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Hirose, Atsumi ^a   Borchert, Matthias ^a,b   Cox, Jonathan ^a   Alkozai, Ahmad Shah ^c   Filippi, Veronique ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c WORLD VISION INTERNATIONAL   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Afghanistan; Delays; Emergency obstetric care; Geographic information systems; Maternal health; Near miss; Referrals; Social network; Transportation

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY OBSTETRIC CARE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; INFECTION; MATERNITY WARD; OBSTETRIC PROCEDURE; PATIENT REFERRAL; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREECLAMPSIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL STATUS; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; TRAVEL; UTERUS RUPTURE; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECLAMPSIA; EMERGENCY; HOSPITAL; LABOR COMPLICATION; MOTOR VEHICLE; OBSTETRICS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SEASON; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR; URBAN POPULATION; UTERUS BLEEDING;

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECLAMPSIA; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTOR VEHICLES; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; OBSTETRICS; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL CARE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RURAL POPULATION; SEASONS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION; TRAVEL; URBAN POPULATION; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE; UTERINE RUPTURE;

EID: 84924192122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12884-015-0435-1     Document Type: Article

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