Achieving the MDGs: Health systems as core social institutions

Development

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 19-24

  Freedman, Lynn P ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

AMDD; Emergency obstetric care (EmOC); Equity; Health policy; Maternal mortality

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; HEALTH SERVICES; MATERNAL MORTALITY;

EID: 17044411362     PISSN: 10116370     EISSN: 14617072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.development.1100107     Document Type: Article

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