Evaluating effectiveness of complex interventions aimed at reducing maternal mortality in developing countries

Journal of Public Health

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 331-337

  Ross, Louise ^a   Simkhada, Padam ^a   Smith, W Cairns S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Public Health ^*

Author keywords

Cluster; Maternal mortality; Nonrandomized

Indexed keywords

RETINOL;

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ELECTRONICS; EVALUATION; EXPERIMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RECORDING; SAMPLE SIZE; TECHNIQUE; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MATERNAL MORTALITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 28644449028     PISSN: 17413842     EISSN: 17413850     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdi058     Document Type: Article

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