Rural Tanzanian women's awareness of danger signs of obstetric complications
Open Access
- 26 March 2009
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Vol. 9 (1), 12
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-9-12
Abstract
Awareness of the danger signs of obstetric complications is the essential first step in accepting appropriate and timely referral to obstetric and newborn care. The objectives of this study were to assess women's awareness of danger signs of obstetric complications and to identify associated factors in a rural district in Tanzania.Keywords
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