Couples’ Opinion and Women’s Utilization of Postnatal Care Service in Wolaita Zone, Southern Ethiopia: A Community Based Mixed Study
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Antenatal and postnatal care service utilization in southern Ethiopia: a population-based study.
BACKGROUND Access to antenatal care (ANC) and postnatal care (PNC) services has a great deal of impacts on major causes of infant death and significantly affects trends of mortality in a population. Antenatal care may play an indirect role in reducing maternal mortality by encouraging women to deliver with assistance of a skilled birth attendant or in a health facility. In most rural settings o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Science Journal of Public Health
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2328-7942
DOI: 10.11648/j.sjph.20170504.12