From Ideals to Tools: Applying Human Rights to Maternal Health

Alicia Ely Yamin

PLOS Medicine, 2013, vol. 10, issue 11, 1-4

Abstract: : Alicia Yamin argues that applying human rights frameworks and approaches to maternal health offers strategies and tools to address the root causes of maternal morbidity and mortality within and beyond health systems, in addition to addressing other violations of women's sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Date: 2013
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