Who will do the caesareans when there is no doctor? Finding creative solutions to the human resource crisis

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 112, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1168-1169

  Bergström, Staffan ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CESAREAN SECTION; HUMAN; INDIA; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MIGRATION; NOTE; PHILIPPINES; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK REDUCTION; SURGICAL TRAINING; SURVIVAL RATE; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; MANPOWER; OBSTETRICS; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PREGNANCY;

ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; OBSTETRICS; PHYSICIANS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 25144515594     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2005.00719.x     Document Type: Note

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