Interculturality from below : an ethnography of maternal health encounters in the Peruvian Andes
Across the Peruvian Andes, rural women continue to die in childbirth. Since 2009, Peru's Ministry of Health has promoted a policy of parto institucional (clinically managed birth) in an attempt to lower the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in the Sierra. Andean women have historically given birth...
Main Author: | Moore, Maria-Anne |
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Other Authors: | Kierans, Ciara ; Stanistreet, Debbi |
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University of Liverpool
2018
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Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.762779 |
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