Gender discrimination as a barrier to high-quality maternal and newborn health care in Nigeria: findings from a cross-sectional quality of care assessment

• Main Authors: Chioma Oduenyi (Author), Joya Banerjee (Author), Oniyire Adetiloye (Author), Barbara Rawlins (Author), Ugo Okoli (Author), Bright Orji (Author), Emmanuel Ugwa (Author), Gbenga Ishola (Author), Myra Betron (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Poor reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health outcomes in Nigeria can be attributed to several factors, not limited to low health service coverage, a lack of quality care, and gender inequity. Providers' gender-discriminatory attitudes, and men's li...