The impact of economic recession on maternal and infant mortality: Lessons from history

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ensor, Tim ^a   Cooper, Stephanie ^a   Davidson, Lisa ^a   Fitzmaurice, Ann ^a   Graham, Wendy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ECONOMIC RECESSION; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; NEWBORN;

DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC RECESSION; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE;

EID: 78549283995     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-727     Document Type: Article

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