Antenatal care in The Gambia: Missed opportunity for information, education and communication
Open Access
- 7 March 2008
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Vol. 8 (1) , 9
Abstract
Antenatal care is widely established and provides an opportunity to inform and educate pregnant women about pregnancy, childbirth and care of the newborn. It is expected that this would assist the women in making choices that would contribute to good pregnancy outcome. We examined the provision of information and education in antenatal clinics from the perspective of pregnant women attending these clinics.Keywords
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