Males’ perceptions and practices towards maternity care in rural southeast Nigeria: Policy implication of participatory action research for safe motherhood

• Irene Ifeyinwa Eze ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: jorenebiz@yahoo.com

  Affiliations Department of Community Medicine, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, Abakaliki, Nigeria, Department of Community Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria, African Institute for Health Policy and Health System, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-7259

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• Edmund Ndudi Ossai,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Community Medicine, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, Abakaliki, Nigeria, Department of Community Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria

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• Ifeyinwa Chizoba Akamike,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Community Medicine, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, Abakaliki, Nigeria, African Institute for Health Policy and Health System, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria

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• Ijeoma Nkem Okedo-Alex,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Community Medicine, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, Abakaliki, Nigeria, African Institute for Health Policy and Health System, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria

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• Lawrence Ulu Ogbonnaya,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Community Medicine, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, Abakaliki, Nigeria, Department of Community Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria, African Institute for Health Policy and Health System, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria

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• Chigozie Jesse Uneke

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Community Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria, African Institute for Health Policy and Health System, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria

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