From ideals to tools: applying human rights to maternal health.
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. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.
Program on the Health Rights of Women and Children, Franςois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D005260:Female; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D008428:Maternal Mortality; D008429:Maternal Welfare; D028701:Patient Rights; D011247:Pregnancy; D060728:Reproductive Health; D016387:Women's Health; D014933:Women's Rights