Increasing the capacity for essential obstetric and newborn care

Maternal and Infant Deaths: Chasing Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 229-240

  Van Broek, Nynke Den ^a   Hofman, Jan ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 80053178448     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781107784758.018     Document Type: Chapter

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