Maternal mortality in rural Bangladesh: Lessons learned from Gonoshasthaya Kendra programme villages

Asia-Pacific Population Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Chaudhury, Rafiqul Huda ^a   Chowdhury, Zafrullah ^b  

^a UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND   (United States)

^b Gonoshasthaya Kendra ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH EXPENDITURE; HEALTH WORKER; MATERNAL HEALTH; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; PUBLIC SERVICE; RURAL AREA; VILLAGE;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 57549116477     PISSN: 0259238X     EISSN: 15644278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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