Health system and community level interventions for improving antenatal care coverage and health outcomes

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2015, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Mbuagbaw, Lawrence ^a,b   Medley, Nancy ^c   Darzi, Andrea J ^d   Richardson, Marty ^e   Habiba Garga, Kesso ^a   Ongolo Zogo, Pierre ^a  

^a YAOUNDÉ CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Cameroon)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^e LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; TETANUS TOXOID;

BREAST FEEDING; COMMUNITY CARE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LOW INCOME COUNTRY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OBSTETRIC DELIVERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REMINDER SYSTEM; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYPHILIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TETANUS; TEXT MESSAGING; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; BIRTH; FEMALE; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PARTURITION; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL CARE; TETANUS TOXOID;

EID: 84969694561     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD010994.pub2     Document Type: Review

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