Can innovative ambulance transport avert pregnancy-related deaths? One-year operational assessment in Ethiopia

Journal of Global Health

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Godefay, Hagos ^a   Kinsman, John ^b   Admasu, Kesetebirhan ^c   Byass, Peter ^b,d  

^a Tigray Regional Health Bureau   (Ethiopia)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c FEDERAL MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Ethiopia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULANCE; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MOBILE PHONE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY RATE;

ADULT; AMBULANCES; CELL PHONE; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY RATE;

EID: 84999084655     PISSN: 20472978     EISSN: 20472986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7189/jogh.06.010410     Document Type: Article

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