Stillbirths: How can health systems deliver for mothers and babies?

The Lancet

Volumn 377, Issue 9777, 2011, Pages 1610-1623

  Pattinson, Robert ^a   Kerber, Kate ^b   Buchmann, Eckhart ^c   Friberg, Ingrid K ^d   Belizan, Maria ^a,e   Lansky, Sonia ^f   Weissman, Eva ^g   Mathai, Matthews ^h   Rudan, Igor ^i,j   Walker, Neff ^d   Lawn, Joy E ^b,k,l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b SAVE THE CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS AND HEALTH POLICY   (Argentina)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^g Futures Institute   (United States)

^h WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^j UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^k SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^l UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; FOLIC ACID; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; TETANUS TOXOID;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONGENITAL SYPHILIS; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FAMILY PLANNING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LABOR INDUCTION; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NEWBORN SEPSIS; OBSTETRIC CARE; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLONGED PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SCALE UP; STILLBIRTH; TETANUS; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

EID: 79955696510     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)62306-9     Document Type: Review

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