Women's Health Issues
Volume 16, Issue 4 , Pages 159-175 , July 2006

Achieving safe motherhood: Applying a life course and multiple determinants perinatal health framework in public health

  • Dawn P. Misra, MHS, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan
    • Women’s and Children’s Health Policy Center, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Dawn P. Misra, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 1420 Washington Heights, M5015, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.
    • ,
  • Holly Grason, MA

      Affiliations

    • Department of Population and Family Health Sciences, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
    • Women’s and Children’s Health Policy Center, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

Received 5 July 2005 ,Revised 3 November 2005 ,Accepted 9 February 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2006.02.006

Women's Health Issues
Volume 16, Issue 4 , Pages 159-175 , July 2006

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