WHO maternal death and near-miss classifications
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WHO maternal death and near-miss classifications.
a MRC Maternal and Infant Health Care Strategies Research Unit, University of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. b Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, 20 avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. c Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, England. d Office for National Statistics, London, England. Correspondence to João Paulo Souza (e-mail: souzaj@...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the World Health Organization
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0042-9686
DOI: 10.2471/blt.09.071001