"We have been working overnight without sleeping": Traditional birth attendants' practices and perceptions of post-partum care services in rural Tanzania

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Mahiti, Gladys R ^a   Kiwara, Angwara D ^a   Mbekenga, Columba K ^a   Hurtig, Anna Karin ^b   Goicolea, Isabel ^b  

^a MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Perceptions; Post partum care services; Practices; Tanzania; Traditional birth attendants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALPRACTICE; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL DISEASE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MIDWIFE ATTITUDE; MULTIPARA; PUERPERIUM; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL AREA; RURAL HEALTH CARE; TANZANIA; TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANT; ADULT; EDUCATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWIFE; PATIENT REFERRAL; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; RURAL POPULATION; STANDARDS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWIFERY; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION; TANZANIA;

EID: 84924213233     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12884-015-0445-z     Document Type: Article

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