Accelerating the global response to reduce maternal mortality

The Lancet

Volumn 379, Issue 9831, 2012, Pages 2025-2026

  Godal, Tore ^a   Quam, Lois ^b  

^a Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs   (Norway)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF STATE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILDBIRTH; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FAMILY; FAMILY PLANNING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INJURY; LABOR; LEADERSHIP; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NEWBORN CARE; NOTE; OBSTETRIC PROCEDURE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERINATAL MORTALITY; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

EID: 84861596904     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60863-0     Document Type: Note

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