Strategies for helping families prepare for birth: Experiences from eastern central Uganda

Global Health Action

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Timša, Liga ^a   Marrone, Gaetano ^a   Ekirapa, Elizabeth ^b   Waiswa, Peter ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Antenatal care; Birth preparedness; Community health worker; Maternal health; Newborn health; Uganda

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER; OBSTETRIC DELIVERY; ODDS RATIO; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PSYCHOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UGANDA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UGANDA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930658526     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v8.23969     Document Type: Article

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