Can women's groups reduce maternal and newborn deaths?

The Lancet

Volumn 381, Issue 9879, 2013, Pages

  Kirkwood, Betty ^a   Bahl, Rajiv ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST FEEDING EDUCATION; CHILD HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; INTERVENTION STUDY; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NOTE; PEER COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; COUNSELOR; EVALUATION STUDY; HOME VISIT; MATERNAL DEATH; NEWBORN DEATH; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANT WOMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK REDUCTION;

EID: 84877901494     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60985-X     Document Type: Note

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