A cross-sectional analytic study of postpartum health care service utilization in the Philippines.

BACKGROUND: The maternal mortality ratio in the Philippines remains high; thus, it will be difficult to achieve the Millennium Development Goals 5 by 2015. Approximately two-thirds of all maternal deaths occur during the postpartum period. Therefore, we conducted the present study to examine the cur...

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Main Authors: Tadashi Yamashita, Sherri Ann Suplido, Cecilia Ladines-Llave, Yuko Tanaka, Naomi Senba, Hiroya Matsuo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3896519?pdf=render