Where There Are (Few) Skilled Birth Attendants
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Where There Are (Few) Skilled Birth Attendants
Recent efforts to reduce maternal mortality in developing countries have focused primarily on two long-term aims: training and deploying skilled birth attendants and upgrading emergency obstetric care facilities. Given the future population-level benefits, strengthening of health systems makes excellent strategic sense but it does not address the immediate safe-delivery needs of the estimated 4...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1606-0997
DOI: 10.3329/jhpn.v29i2.7812