Community health workers can improve male involvement in maternal health: Evidence from rural Tanzania

Global Health Action

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  August, Furaha ^a,b   Pembe, Andrea B ^a,b   Mpembeni, Rose ^a   Axemo, Pia ^b   Darj, Elisabeth ^b,c  

^a MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Community based intervention; Home based life saving skills; Male involvement; Rural Tanzania

Indexed keywords

CHILDBIRTH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT; MALE; MATERNAL WELFARE; PREGNANCY; PUERPERIUM; RURAL POPULATION; SKILL; SPOUSE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TANZANIA; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATION; FATHER; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; OBSTETRIC DELIVERY; PSYCHOLOGY; RURAL HEALTH CARE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; DECISION MAKING; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FATHERS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; TANZANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84982126518     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v9.30064     Document Type: Article

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