Understanding maternal mortality from top-down and bottom-up perspectives: Case of Tigray Region, Ethiopia

Journal of Global Health

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Godefay, Hagos ^a   Byass, Peter ^b,c,d   Kinsman, John ^b   Mulugeta, Afework ^e  

^a Tigray National Regional State Health Bureau   (Ethiopia)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^e MEKELLE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

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EID: 84948830967     PISSN: 20472978     EISSN: 20472986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7189/jogh.05.010404     Document Type: Article

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