Safe motherhood in Jamaica: From slavery to self-determination

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 254-261

  McCaw Binns, Affette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DELIVERY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECLAMPSIA; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME DELIVERY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JAMAICA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDWIFE; POLITICS; POPULATION GENETICS; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; RISK; SEPSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUDDEN DEATH; UTERUS MYOMA;

EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; JAMAICA; MALE; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MIDWIFERY; POLITICS; PREGNANCY; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIAL PROBLEMS;

EID: 21244487009     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.2005.00650.x     Document Type: Article

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