Reducing one million child deaths from birth asphyxia – a survey of health systems gaps and priorities

Joy E Lawn1, Ananta Manandhar2, Rachel A Haws3, Gary L. Darmstadt3
1Saving Newborn Lives Initiative, Save the Children-US, Washington, DC, USA
2BT Research (affiliated with the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils [CCLRC] e-Science Centre, Daresbury Laboratory, UK at the time of the survey), Ipswich, UK
3Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

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