Where women go to deliver: Understanding the changing landscape of childbirth in Africa and Asia

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 1146-1152

  Montagu, Dominic ^a   Sudhinaraset, May ^a,b   Diamond Smith, Nadia ^a   Campbell, Oona ^c   Gabrysch, Sabine ^d   Freedman, Lynn ^e   Kruk, Margaret E ^f   Donnay, France ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e Harvard University ^*  (United States)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth demographic shift; childbirth; developing countries; facility based delivery; health care; home delivery; location; maternal health; quality; safe delivery

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ASIA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRIVER; FEMALE; FUNDING; HOME DELIVERY; HUMAN; INVESTMENT; LANDSCAPE; MATERNAL WELFARE; MATERNITY WARD; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; SPECIALIZATION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRAVEL; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICE; OBSTETRIC DELIVERY; PREGNANCY; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

AFRICA; ASIA; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH FACILITIES; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; PREGNANCY; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 85030673609     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czx060     Document Type: Article

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