Male engagement as a strategy to improve utilization and community-based delivery of maternal, newborn and child health services: Evidence from an intervention in Odisha, India

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 15, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Fotso, Jean Christophe ^a   Higgins Steele, Ariel ^b   Mohanty, Satyanarayan ^c  

^a Newborn and Child Health Initiative   (United States)

^b UNICEF   (United States)

^c DCOR Consulting Private Ltd   (India)

Author keywords

India; Male engagement; Maternal; newborn and child health; Community based delivery; Odisha

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FACILITATION; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INDIA; INTERVIEW; MALE; NARRATIVE; NEWBORN; NURSE MIDWIFE; NUTRITION; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; ADULT; EDUCATION; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PROMOTION; MATERNAL CHILD HEALTH CARE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SPOUSE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; CHILD; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL-CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION; SPOUSES;

EID: 84979084579     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-15-S1-S5     Document Type: Article

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