Association of maternal work with adverse perinatal outcome

Canadian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 217-221

  Arafa, Mostafa A ^a   Amine, Taher ^a   Fattah, Moataz Abdel ^b  

^a High Institute of Public Health Egypt   (Egypt)

^b ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Adverse pregnancy outcome; Developing countries; Maternal work; Strenuous work

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447293759     PISSN: 00084263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03403716     Document Type: Article

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