Improving birth outcomes key to improving global health

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 316, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 395-396

  Spong, Catherine Y ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; CESAREAN SECTION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LABOR INDUCTION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; TREND STUDY; FEMALE; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; TERM BIRTH; TRENDS;

CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR, INDUCED; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; TERM BIRTH;

EID: 84979781541     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2016.9851     Document Type: Editorial

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