Newborn health: Everybody's business

Global Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 752-759

  Darmstadt, Gary L ^a   Munar, Wolfgang ^a   Henry, Sarah K ^b  

^a BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b Global Health Visions   (United States)

Author keywords

delivery; maternal health; neonatal; newborn health; primary health care; systems

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INTERVENTION STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN HEALTH; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CHILD CARE; INFANT WELFARE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; INFANT CARE; INFANT WELFARE; INFANT, NEWBORN; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY;

EID: 84906257954     PISSN: 17441692     EISSN: 17441706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2014.924544     Document Type: Article

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