Crossing boundaries for maternal health : a qualitative investigation into the role of community health workers as frontline providers of maternal care in the Peruvian Andes

Despite its status as a middle income country, Peru has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the Americas. In the Andes region, poor, rural indigenous women are more likely to die from pregnancy related complications than their urban counterparts because they are denied the same level of m...

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Main Author: Vidal, Nicloe L.
Published: Queen Margaret University 2015
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.690080