Improving Women's Health through Universal Health Coverage

Jonathan Quick and colleagues discuss how women's health world-wide can be improved through universal health coverage. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  PLoS Medicine

• Publication date

  2014-01-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001580PMID 24399923PMCID 3882205
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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