Reasons for preference of home delivery with traditional birth attendants (TBAs) in Rural Bangladesh: A qualitative exploration

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Sarker, Bidhan Krishna ^a   Rahman, Musfikur ^a   Rahman, Tawhidur ^a   Hossain, Jahangir ^b   Reichenbach, Laura ^a,c   Mitra, Dipak Kumar ^d  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b CARE Bangladesh   (Bangladesh)

^c POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; BANGLADESH; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FAMILY; FAMILY STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOME DELIVERY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MANAGER; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; POVERTY; PREGNANT WOMAN; RURAL AREA; TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANT; ADULT; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; MALE; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MIDWIFE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PREGNANCY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BANGLADESH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH FACILITIES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MIDWIFERY; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PREGNANCY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84953775455     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146161     Document Type: Article

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