Promoting uptake of focused antenatal care among pregnant women in Bangladesh by using an extended protection motivation theory : the role of mobile communication

• Main Author: Md Monwar Hossain
• Other Authors: Charles T. Salmon
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/72321
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...