Sub-Saharan Africa's Mothers, Newborns, and Children: Where and Why Do They Die?

In the first article in a series on maternal, newborn, and child health in sub-Saharan Africa, Joy Lawn and colleagues outline where and why deaths among mothers and children occur and what known interventions can be employed to prevent these deaths.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  PLoS Medicine

• Publication date

  2010-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Sociology

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  DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000294PMID 20574524PMCID 2888581
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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