Health systems factors influencing maternal health services: a four-country comparison.

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Published in Health Policy on December 15, 2004

Authors

Justin Oliver Parkhurst1, Loveday Penn-Kekana, Duane Blaauw, Dina Balabanova, Kirill Danishevski, Syed Azizur Rahman, Virgil Onama, Freddie Ssengooba

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Public Health and Policy, Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK. justin.parkhurst@lshtm.ac.uk

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