Home birth without skilled attendants despite millennium villages project intervention in Ghana: insight from a survey of women's perceptions of skilled obstetric care.

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Published in BMC Pregnancy Childbirth on October 07, 2015

Authors

Emmanuel Kweku Nakua1, Justice Thomas Sevugu2,3, Veronica Millicent Dzomeku4, Easmon Otupiri5, Heather R Lipkovich6, Ellis Owusu-Dabo7,8

Author Affiliations

1: School of Public Health, Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Kwame Nkrumah University Science and Technology, PMB, Kumasi, Ghana. emmanngh@gmail.com.
2: School of Public Health, Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Kwame Nkrumah University Science and Technology, PMB, Kumasi, Ghana. justicese1@yahoo.com.
3: Sekyere-Kumawu Health Directorate, Box 40, Kumasi, Ghana. justicese1@yahoo.com.
4: Department of Nursing, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. vmdzomeku@gmail.com.
5: School of Public Health, Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Kwame Nkrumah University Science and Technology, PMB, Kumasi, Ghana. easmono@yahoo.com.
6: Henry Ford Health System, Department of Public Health Sciences, Detroit, MI, USA. hlipkov1@hfhs.org.
7: School of Public Health, Department of International and Global Health, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana. owusudabo@yahoo.com.
8: Kumasi Collaborative Center for Tropical Research, Kumasi, Ghana. owusudabo@yahoo.com.

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