Birth location preferences of mothers and fathers in rural Ghana: Implications for pregnancy, labor and birth outcomes.

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Published in BMC Pregnancy Childbirth on August 12, 2015

Authors

Leslie E Cofie1, Clare Barrington2,3, Kavita Singh4,5, Sodzi Sodzi-Tettey6, Akalpa Akaligaung7

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Health Behavior, University of North Carolina, Gillings School of Global Public Health, 302 Rosenau Hall, CB #7440, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7440, USA. cofie@unc.edu.
2: Department of Health Behavior, University of North Carolina, Gillings School of Global Public Health, 302 Rosenau Hall, CB #7440, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7440, USA. cbarring@email.unc.edu.
3: Carolina Population Center, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7445, USA. cbarring@email.unc.edu.
4: Carolina Population Center, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7445, USA. singhk@email.unc.edu.
5: Department of Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina, Gillings School of Global Public Health, 401 Rosenau Hall, CB #7445, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7445, USA. singhk@email.unc.edu.
6: Project Fives Alive!/Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Accra, Ghana. ssodzi-tettey@ihi.org.
7: Boston University School of Public Health, 15 Albany St, Boston, MA, 02118, USA. akaligaung@gmail.com.

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