Strategies for reducing maternal mortality in developing countries: what can we learn from the history of the industrialized West?
Open Access
- 1 October 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Tropical Medicine & International Health
- Vol. 3 (10) , 771-782
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3156.1998.00310.x
Abstract
Ten years of Safe Motherhood Initiative notwithstanding, many developing countries still experience maternal mortality levels similar to those of industrialized countries in the early 20th century. T...Keywords
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