How can birth activism contribute to sustaining change for better birthing for women, families and societies in the new millennium?

Sustainability, Midwifery and Birth

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 218-232

  Daellenbach, Rea ^a   Edwards, Nadine Pilley ^b  

^a CHRISTCHURCH POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^b Pregnancy and Parents Centre   (United Kingdom)

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