Measuring coverage in MNCH: validating women's self-report of emergency cesarean sections in Ghana and the Dominican Republic.

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Published in PLoS One on May 07, 2013

Authors

Ozge Tunçalp1, Cynthia Stanton, Arachu Castro, Richard Adanu, Marilyn Heymann, Kwame Adu-Bonsaffoh, Samantha R Lattof, Ann Blanc, Ana Langer

Author Affiliations

1: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America. otuncalp@jhsph.edu

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