Maternal mortality revisited: The application of the new ICD-MM classification system in reference to maternal deaths in Sri Lanka

Reproductive Health

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Agampodi, Suneth ^a   Wickramage, Kolitha ^b   Agampodi, Thilini ^a   Thennakoon, Upuli ^a   Jayathilaka, Nirasha ^a   Karunarathna, Dhammika ^a   Alagiyawanna, Sasanka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^b INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; ICD-10; LIVE BIRTH; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANT WOMAN; SELF POISONING; SINGLE WOMAN; SRI LANKA; SUICIDE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; PREGNANCY; SRI LANKA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84896726895     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17424755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4755-11-17     Document Type: Article

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