Moving forward: Nurses are key to achieving the United Nations Development Program's Millennium Development Goals

International Nursing Review

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-58

  Amieva, S ^a,b   Ferguson, S ^c  

^a Population Action International   (United States)

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

^c LYNCHBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Child mortality; Maternal mortality; Millennium development goal 4; Millennium development goal 5; Nursing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857044587     PISSN: 00208132     EISSN: 14667657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-7657.2011.00944.x     Document Type: Article

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