Local level inequalities in the use of hospital-based maternal delivery in rural South Africa.

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Published in Global Health on July 15, 2014

Authors

Sheetal Prakash Silal1, Loveday Penn-Kekana2, Till Bärnighausen3,4, Helen Schneider5

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. Sheetal.Silal@uct.ac.za.
2: Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Loveday.Penn-Kekana@lshtm.ac.uk.
3: Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA. tbarnighausen@africacentre.ac.za.
4: Wellcome Trust Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Mtubatuba, South Africa. tbarnighausen@africacentre.ac.za.
5: School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. hschneider@uwc.ac.za.

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