Cost of maternal health services in selected primary care centres in Ghana: a step down allocation approach.

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Published in BMC Health Serv Res on July 26, 2013

Authors

Maxwell Ayindenaba Dalaba1, Patricia Akweongo, Germain Savadogo, Happiness Saronga, John Williams, Rainer Sauerborn, Hengjin Dong, Svetla Loukanova

Author Affiliations

1: Institute of Public Health, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. madalaba@yahoo.com

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