Improving birth outcomes [electronic resource] : meeting the challenges in the developing world / Committee on Improving Birth Outcomes, Board on Global Health ; Judith R. Bale, Barbara J. Stoll, and Adetokunbo O. Lucas, editors

Title	Improving birth outcomes [electronic resource] : meeting the challenges in the developing world / Committee on Improving Birth Outcomes, Board on Global Health ; Judith R. Bale, Barbara J. Stoll, and Adetokunbo O. Lucas, editors
Imprint	Washington, DC : National Academies Press, c2003
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Descript	xv, 354 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

CONTENT

Introduction -- Reducing maternal mortality and modbidity -- Reducing neonatal mortality and morbidity -- Reducing fetal mortality -- Improving birth outcomes within health care systems -- The problem of low birth weight -- Reducing mortality and morbidity from birth defects -- Preventing perinatal transmission of HIV -- Summing up: the way forward

Newborn infants -- Developing countries -- Mortality -- Prevention Newborn infants -- Diseases -- Developing countries -- Prevention Fetal death -- Developing countries -- Prevention Fetus -- Diseases -- Developing countries -- Prevention Mothers -- Developing countries -- Mortality -- Prevention Infant health services -- Developing countries Maternal health services -- Developing countries Pregnancy -- Complications -- Developing countries -- Prevention Pregnancy Complications -- prevention & control Pregnancy Outcome Developing Countries Infant Mortality Maternal Mortality Electronic books.