Measuring access to emergency obstetric care in rural Zambia
Open Access
- 31 May 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in International Journal of Emergency Medicine
- Vol. 1 (2), 113-119
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s12245-008-0032-4
Abstract
Global health experts identify emergency obstetric care (EmOC) as the most important intervention to improve maternal survival in low- and middle-income countries. In Zambia, 1 in 27 women will die of maternal causes, yet the level of availability of EmOC is not known at the provincial level.Keywords
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