Safe motherhood: Impossible dream or achievable reality?

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 167, Issue 11-12, 1997, Pages 622-625

  O'Loughlin, John ^a  

^a Exec Bd Intl Fed Gynecol/O ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL FACTOR; CYSTOVAGINAL FISTULA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; OBSTETRIC CARE; PERINATAL MORTALITY; POVERTY; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL STATUS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0031573899     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1997.tb138915.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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