Improving the maternal mortality ratio in Zhejiang Province, China, 1988-2008

Midwifery

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 544-548

  Qiu, Liqian ^a   Lin, Jun ^a   Ma, Yuanying ^a   Wu, Weiwei ^a   Qiu, Ling ^b   Zhou, Aizhen ^b   Shi, Wenjun ^b   Lee, Andy ^c   Binns, Colin ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b Zhejiang Construction Bureau   (China)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

China; Improvement; Maternal mortality; Zhejiang Province

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINA; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINA; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77956987883     PISSN: 02666138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2010.06.003     Document Type: Article

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