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Selective primary health care: An interim strategy for disease control in developing countries

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The Untold Story: How the Health Care Systems in Developing Countries Contribute to Maternal Mortality

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Evaluation of a primary health care programme in The Gambia. I. The impact of trained traditional birth attendants on the outcome of pregnancy.

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Midwives in Niger: An uncomfortable position between social behaviours and health care constraints

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The Training and Activity of Village Midwives in the Sudan

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Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations