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Volume 22, 2014 - Issue 44: Using the law and the courts
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Reducing high maternal mortality rates in western China: a novel approach

Kunchok Gyaltsen (Gongque Jianzan)Professor and Tibetan Medical Doctor, Tso-ngon (Qinghai) University Tibetan Medical College, Xining City; and Kumbum Tibetan Medical Hospital, Kumbum Monastery, Lusar (CH: Huangzhong), Qinghai Province, P.R. China
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Lhusham Gyal (Li Xianjia)Professor and Dean, Tso-ngon (Qinghai)University Tibetan Medical College, Xining City, Qinghai Province, P.R. China
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Jessica D GipsonAssistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Tsering Kyi (Cai Rangji)Director and Obstetrician-Gynaecologist, Tibetan Birth and Training Center, Tongren County of Huangnan Prefecture, Qinghai Province, P.R. China
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Anne R PebleyProfessor, California Center for Population Research, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, [email protected]
Pages 164-173 | Published online: 30 Dec 2014

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Yuxuan Yang & Min Yu. (2023) Disparities and determinants of maternal health services utilization among women in poverty-stricken rural areas of China: a cross-sectional study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 23:1.
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Corrina Moucheraud, Lhusham Gyal, Kunchok Gyaltsen, Lumo Tsering, Subasri Narasimhan & Jessica Gipson. (2017) Maternal Health Behaviors and Outcomes in a Nomadic Tibetan Population. Maternal and Child Health Journal 22:2, pages 264-273.
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Yuan Huang, David Shallcross, Li Pi, Fan Tian, Jay Pan & Carine Ronsmans. (2018) Ethnicity and maternal and child health outcomes and service coverage in western China: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet Global Health 6:1, pages e39-e56.
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Yi Mu, Nolan McDonnell, Zhuoyang Li, Juan Liang, Yanping Wang, Jun Zhu & Elizabeth Sullivan. (2016) Amniotic fluid embolism as a cause of maternal mortality in China between 1996 and 2013: a population-based retrospective study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 16:1.
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Kunchok Gyaltsen, Jessica D. Gipson, Lhusham Gyal, Tsering Kyi, Andrew L. Hicks & Anne R. Pebley. (2015) Maternal health care seeking by rural Tibetan women: characteristics of women delivering at a newly-constructed birth center in western China. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 15:1.
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Jessica D. Gipson, Kunchok Gyaltsen Gongque Jianzan, Lhusham Gyal Li Xianjia, Tsering Kyi Cai Rangji, Andrew L. Hicks & Anne R. Pebley. (2015) Tibetan women's perspectives and satisfaction with delivery care in a rural birth center. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics 129:3, pages 244-247.
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