“Kunika women are always sick”: views from community focus groups on short birth interval (kunika) in Bauchi state, northern Nigeria

BACKGROUND: In Northern Nigeria, short birth interval is common. The word kunika in the Hausa language describes a woman becoming pregnant before weaning her last child. A sizeable literature confirms an association between short birth interval and adverse perinatal and maternal health outcomes. Yet...

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Autores principales: Ansari, Umaira, Pimentel, Juan, Omer, Khalid, Gidado, Yagana, Baba, Muhd Chadi, Andersson, Neil, Cockcroft, Anne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7245922/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32448373
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-020-00970-2

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7245922/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32448373
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-020-00970-2

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