The emergence of a global right to health norm--the unresolved case of universal access to quality emergency obstetric care.

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Published in BMC Int Health Hum Rights on February 27, 2014

Authors

Rachel Hammonds1, Gorik Ooms

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, 155 Nationalestraat, Antwerp 2000, Belgium. rhammonds@itg.be.

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