Going to scale: design and implementation challenges of a program to increase access to skilled birth attendants in Nigeria

• Main Authors: Edward N. Okeke (Author), Emma Pitchforth (Author), Josephine Exley (Author), Peter Glick (Author), Isa Sadeeq Abubakar (Author), Amalavoyal V. Chari (Author), Usman Bashir (Author), Kun Gu (Author), Obinna Onwujekwe (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The lack of availability of skilled providers in low- and middle- income countries is considered to be an important barrier to achieving reductions in maternal and child mortality. However, there is limited research on programs increasing the availability of skilled birth attenda...