Accessing maternal health services in eastern Burma

Macaya Douoguih

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050250

Accessing maternal health services in eastern Burma

PLoS Med. 2008 Dec 23;5(12):1645-6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050250.

Author

Macaya Douoguih¹

Affiliation

¹ Center for Research for Mothers & Children, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. macaya1@gmail.com

Abstract

Macaya Douoguih discusses a retrospective household survey that characterized the relationships between access to care, health status, and human rights violations in eastern Burma.

MeSH terms

Ethnicity / statistics & numerical data
Female
Health Services Accessibility* / statistics & numerical data
Health Status Indicators
Human Rights Abuses / ethnology
Humans
Infant Mortality
Infant, Newborn
Maternal Health Services* / organization & administration
Maternal Health Services* / supply & distribution
Myanmar / epidemiology
Pregnancy
Warfare