Sub-Saharan Africa's Mothers, Newborns, and Children: Where and Why Do They Die?
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1 Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children, Cape Town, South Africa, 2 John Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 3 United States National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, United States of America, 4 Ghana Academy of Arts and Science, Accra, Ghana, 5 The Universities of Kwazulu-Natal and the Witwatersrand, Durban, South Africa, 6 Uganda National Academy of Sciences, Uganda
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عنوان ژورنال:
دوره 7 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010