Severe maternal morbidity from direct obstetric causes in West Africa: incidence and case fatality rates
Data on maternal morbidity make it possible to assess how many women are likely to need essential obstetric care, and permit the organization, monitoring and evaluation of safe motherhood programmes. In the present paper we propose operational definitions of severe maternal morbidity and report the...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The World Health Organization
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Series: | Bulletin of the World Health Organization |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862000000500004&lng=en&tlng=en |