Does antenatal care matter in the use of skilled birth attendance in rural Africa: A multi-country analysis
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Antenatal care; Skilled birth attendance; Quality of care; Endogeneity; Structural equation modeling; Africa; Ghana; Uganda; Kenya; Tanzania;All these keywords.
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