Pregnancy
Reducing Maternal Death and Disability
Published on 15. January 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-19-852699-5 (ISBN)
Description
This issue forms part of a series of expert reviews on selected health topics in fields where significant new developments are occurring. It is an invaluable reference source and allows those working in other specialities and younger clinicians and scientists to update their knowledge in important and well-defined subject areas.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
numerous tables & figures
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
575 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-852699-5 (9780198526995)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Rodeck (Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Royal and University College Medical School)
Content
Global; burden of maternal death and disability ; Safe motherhood ; 'Beyond the numbers': audit methodologies to reduce death and ; disability ; Skilled attendants for pregnancy and delivery ; Community involvement ; Promoting standards for quality care ; Sri Lanka's national strategy ; Unsafe abortion ; Abortion: South African experience ; Mothers infected with HIV ; Malaria prevention strategies ; Anaemia and micronutrient deficiencies ; Pre-eclampsia/hypertension ; Thrombo-embolism ; Obstructed labour and prevention and management of fistula ; Postpartum haemorrhage ; Perinatal mental illness ; Near misses