Promoting uptake of focused antenatal care among pregnant women in Bangladesh by using an extended protection motivation theory : the role of mobile communication
Maternal mortality is still a serious problem in Bangladesh despite commendable reproductive health care improvements in the past four decades. Regardless of sound provisions for antenatal care (ANC), the focused uptake of ANC among pregnant mothers has been unsatisfactory. Research on the uptake of...
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| author | Md Monwar Hossain |
| author2 | Charles T. Salmon |
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| description | Maternal mortality is still a serious problem in Bangladesh despite commendable reproductive health care improvements in the past four decades. Regardless of sound provisions for antenatal care (ANC), the focused uptake of ANC among pregnant mothers has been unsatisfactory. Research on the uptake of ANC has so far been only from the health system perspective. Although theories of health behavior highlight perceived risk as a significant factor for people to adopt health behavior, little is known about the association between uptake of ANC and perception of pregnancy complications in Bangladesh. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/723212020-10-28T08:41:09Z Promoting uptake of focused antenatal care among pregnant women in Bangladesh by using an extended protection motivation theory : the role of mobile communication Md Monwar Hossain Charles T. Salmon Theng Yin Leng May Oo Lwin Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication Maternal mortality is still a serious problem in Bangladesh despite commendable reproductive health care improvements in the past four decades. Regardless of sound provisions for antenatal care (ANC), the focused uptake of ANC among pregnant mothers has been unsatisfactory. Research on the uptake of ANC has so far been only from the health system perspective. Although theories of health behavior highlight perceived risk as a significant factor for people to adopt health behavior, little is known about the association between uptake of ANC and perception of pregnancy complications in Bangladesh. Doctor of Philosophy (WKWSCI) 2017-06-05T08:41:10Z 2017-06-05T08:41:10Z 2017 Thesis Md Monwar Hossain. (2017). Promoting uptake of focused antenatal care among pregnant women in Bangladesh by using an extended protection motivation theory : the role of mobile communication. Doctoral thesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. http://hdl.handle.net/10356/72321 10.32657/10356/72321 en Nanyang Technological University 283 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication Md Monwar Hossain Promoting uptake of focused antenatal care among pregnant women in Bangladesh by using an extended protection motivation theory : the role of mobile communication |
| title | Promoting uptake of focused antenatal care among pregnant women in Bangladesh by using an extended protection motivation theory : the role of mobile communication |
| title_full | Promoting uptake of focused antenatal care among pregnant women in Bangladesh by using an extended protection motivation theory : the role of mobile communication |
| title_fullStr | Promoting uptake of focused antenatal care among pregnant women in Bangladesh by using an extended protection motivation theory : the role of mobile communication |
| title_full_unstemmed | Promoting uptake of focused antenatal care among pregnant women in Bangladesh by using an extended protection motivation theory : the role of mobile communication |
| title_short | Promoting uptake of focused antenatal care among pregnant women in Bangladesh by using an extended protection motivation theory : the role of mobile communication |
| title_sort | promoting uptake of focused antenatal care among pregnant women in bangladesh by using an extended protection motivation theory the role of mobile communication |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication |
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