Special delivery: an analysis of mHealth in maternal and newborn health programs and their outcomes around the world.

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Published in Matern Child Health J on July 01, 2012

Authors

Tigest Tamrat1, Stan Kachnowski

Author Affiliations

1: Healthcare Innovation and Technology Lab, 3960 Broadway, Room 410, New York, NY 10032, USA. author@hitlab.org

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