An alternative strategy to reduce maternal mortality

Lancet

Volumn 368, Issue 9546, 2006, Pages 1477-1479

  Costello, Anthony ^a   Azad, Kishwar ^b   Barnett, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BIRDEM Hospital   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOME DELIVERY; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MATERNAL WELFARE; MIDWIFE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL CARE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33750357731     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69388-4     Document Type: Note

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