Countdown to 2030: tracking progress towards universal coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health

The Lancet

Volumn 391, Issue 10129, 2018, Pages 1538-1548

  Boerma, Ties ^a   Requejo, Jennifer ^a   Victora, Cesar G ^a   Amouzou, Agbessi ^a   George, Asha ^a   Agyepong, Irene ^a   Barroso, Carmen ^a   Barros, Aluisio J D ^a   Bhutta, Zulfiqar A ^a   Black, Robert E ^a   Borghi, Josephine ^a   Buse, Kent ^a   Aguirre, Liliana Carvajal ^a   Chopra, Mickey ^a   Chou, Doris ^a   Chu, Yue ^a   Claeson, Mariam ^a   Daelmans, Bernadette ^a   Davis, Austen ^a   DeJong, Jocelyn ^a   Diaz, Theresa ^a   El Arifeen, Shams ^a   Ewerling, Fernanda ^a   Fox, Monica ^a   Gillespie, Stuart ^a   Grove, John ^a   Guenther, Tanya ^a   Haakenstad, Annie ^a   Hosseinpoor, Ahmad Reza ^a   Hounton, Sennen ^a   Huicho, Luis ^a   Jacobs, Troy ^a   Jiwani, Safia ^a   Keita, Youssouf ^a   Khosla, Rajat ^a   Kruk, Margaret E ^a   Kuo, Taona ^a   Kyobutungi, Catherine ^a   Langer, Ana ^a   Lawn, Joy E ^a   Leslie, Hannah ^a   Liang, Mengjia ^a   Maliqi, Blerta ^a   Manu, Alexander ^a   Masanja, Honorati ^a   Marchant, Tanya ^a   Menon, Purnima ^a   Moran, Allisyn C ^a   Mujica, Oscar J ^a   Nambiar, Devaki ^a   Ohiri, Kelechi ^a   Park, Lois A ^a   Patton, George C ^a   Peterson, Stefan ^a   Piwoz, Ellen ^a   Rasanathan, Kumanan ^a   Raj, Anita ^a   Ronsmans, Carine ^a   Saad Haddad, Ghada ^a   Sabin, Mariam L ^a   Sanders, David ^a   Sawyer, Susan M ^a   da Silva, Inacio Crochemore M ^a   Singh, Neha S ^a   Somers, Kate ^a   Spiegel, Paul ^a   Tappis, Hannah ^a   Temmerman, Marleen ^a   Vaz, Lara M E ^a   Ved, Rajani R ^a   Vidaletti, Luis Paulo ^a   Waiswa, Peter ^a   Wehrmeister, Fernando C ^a   Weiss, William ^a   You, Danzhen ^a   Zaidi, Shehla ^a   more..

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT HEALTH; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONFLICT; DECISION MAKING; EMPOWERMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MATERNAL CHILD HEALTH CARE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; STILLBIRTH; STUNTING; WOMEN'S HEALTH; CHILD HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH EQUITY; INSURANCE; MATERNAL WELFARE; MORTALITY; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

CHILD HEALTH; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH EQUITY; HUMANS; INFANT HEALTH; MATERNAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; UNIVERSAL COVERAGE;

EID: 85044505177     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30104-1     Document Type: Review

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