Every death counts: measurement of maternal mortality via a census.
Methods for measuring maternal mortality at national and subnational levels in the developing world lag far behind the demand for estimates. We evaluated use of the national population census as a means of measuring maternal mortality by assessing data from five countries (Benin, Islamic Republic of...
| Publicado en: | Bulletin of the World Health Organization Vol. 79; no. 7; pp. 657 - 665 |
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World Health Organization
2001
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