Sub-Saharan Africa's Mothers, Newborns, and Children: How Many Lives Could Be Saved with Targeted Health Interventions?

نویسندگان

  • Ingrid K. Friberg
  • Mary V. Kinney
  • Joy E. Lawn
  • Kate J. Kerber
  • M. Oladoyin Odubanjo
  • Anne-Marie Bergh
  • Neff Walker
  • Eva Weissman
  • Mickey Chopra
  • Robert E. Black
چکیده

1 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 2 Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children, Cape Town, South Africa, 3 The Nigerian Academy of Science, Lagos, Nigeria, 4 MRC Unit for Maternal and Infant Health Care Strategies, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, 5 Futures Institute, New York, New York, United States of America, 6 UNICEF, New York, New York, United States of America

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دوره 7  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2010