Department of Error (DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60108-2);Maternal and child health in the occupied Palestinian territory

The Lancet

Volumn 373, Issue 9667, 2009, Pages 967-977

  Rahim, Hanan F Abdul ^a,b   Wick, Laura ^a   Halileh, Samia ^a   Hassan Bitar, Sahar ^a   Chekir, Hafedh ^c   Watt, Graham ^d   Khawaja, Marwan ^e,f  

^a BIRZEIT UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^b QATAR UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

^c UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^e AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARAB; CONFLICT; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; MATERNITY WARD; PATIENT CARE; PERINATAL PERIOD; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; UNEMPLOYMENT; WORK;

EID: 62149143681     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61193-4     Document Type: Erratum

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