The relationship of women's status and empowerment with skilled birth attendant use in Senegal and Tanzania

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Shimamoto, Kyoko ^a   Gipson, Jessica D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross national study; Delivery; Maternal mortality; Skilled birth attendant; Sub Saharan Africa; Women's empowerment; Women's status

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; EMPOWERMENT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PARITY; SENEGAL; SOCIAL STATUS; TANZANIA; TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANT; WOMEN'S HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; BIRTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FACTOR ANALYSIS; FAMILY SIZE; GENDER IDENTITY; MIDWIFE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSTETRIC DELIVERY; PREGNANCY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; CULTURE; DECISION MAKING; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDWIFERY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARTURITION; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PREGNANCY; SENEGAL; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TANZANIA;

EID: 84937779654     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12884-015-0591-3     Document Type: Article

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