"You should go so that others can come"; the role of facilities in determining an early departure after childbirth in Morogoro Region, Tanzania.

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Published in BMC Pregnancy Childbirth on December 09, 2015

Authors

Shannon A McMahon1,2, Diwakar Mohan3, Amnesty E LeFevre4, Idda Mosha5, Rose Mpembeni6, Rachel P Chase7, Abdullah H Baqui8,9, Peter J Winch10

Author Affiliations

1: Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21205-2179, USA. shannon.mcmahon@jhu.edu.
2: Institute of Public Health, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg, Germany. shannon.mcmahon@jhu.edu.
3: Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21205-2179, USA. dmohan3@jhmi.edu.
4: Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21205-2179, USA. aelefevre@jhu.edu.
5: School of Public Health and Social Sciences, Department of Behavioural Sciences, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, P.O. Box 65015, Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania. ihmosha@yahoo.co.uk.
6: School of Public Health and Social Sciences, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, P.O. Box 65015, Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania. rcmpembeni@yahoo.com.
7: Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21205-2179, USA. rachel.chase@jhu.edu.
8: Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21205-2179, USA. abaqui@jhu.edu.
9: International Center for Maternal and Newborn Health, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21205-2179, USA. abaqui@jhu.edu.
10: Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21205-2179, USA. pwinch@outlook.com.

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