Thirty years of global outreach by the American College of Nurse-Midwives

MCN The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 290-294

  Kennedy, Holly Powell ^a   Stalls, Suzanne ^b   Kaplan, Lorrie Kline ^b   Grenier, Lindsay ^b   Fujioka, Angeline ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^b American College of Nurse Midwives   (United States)

Author keywords

childbirth; global health; maternal child health; midwifery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MIDWIFE; NEWBORN; NURSE MIDWIFE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY;

COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL-CHILD HEALTH CENTERS; MIDWIFERY; NURSE MIDWIVES; PREGNANCY; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84865704518     PISSN: 0361929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMC.0b013e318252ba71     Document Type: Article

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