Implementing a facility-based maternal and perinatal health care surveillance system in Afghanistan

Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 296-300

  Dott, Mary M ^b   Orakail, Nasreen ^b   Ebadi, Hameeda ^b   Hernandez, Filiberto ^b   MacFarlene, Kitty ^b   Riley, Patricia L ^a   Prepas, Roberta ^b   McCarthy, Brian J ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Afghanistan; Maternal mortality; Perinatal mortality; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DELIVERY; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; FETUS WEIGHT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NEWBORN CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PERINATAL CARE; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

AFGHANISTAN; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, MATERNITY; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL MORTALITY; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION;

EID: 20944446894     PISSN: 15269523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmwh.2005.02.013     Document Type: Article

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