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Male involvement in maternal healthcare through Community- based Health Planning and Services

The views of the men in rural Ghana

Bibliographic Data

ID15360965
AuthorsBougangue Bassoumah (Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, corresponding author), Bassoumah Bougangue, How Kee Ling (Universiti Malaysia Sarawak)
Year2017
Volume17
Issue1
Pages693-693
Publication date2017-09-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBMC Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1471-2458 • E-ISSN: 1471-2458
PublisherBioMed Central (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1186/s12889-017-4680-2
PMID28874157
OpenAlexW2751538888
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited8

Sustenance of male involvement especially, husbands and CHVs is required at the household and community levels for positive maternal outcomes. Ghana Health Service, health professionals and policy makers should take traditional gender role expectations into consideration in the planning and implementation of maternal health promotion programmes

Childbirth · Community health · Economic growth · Environmental health · Focus group · Health care · Nonprobability sampling · Political science · Population · Pregnancy · Public health · Qualitative research · Reproductive health · Snowball sampling · Sociology · Sustenance · Thematic analysis · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine · Nursing · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

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Unique citing works14
Citations per year1,56
Citation span2017 - 2025 (9)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 14
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