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Meeting the Health Needs of Migrant Workers Affected by the Tsunami

Author : david wilson | 2005
Published By: PLOS

In practice, Burmese migrants rarely access even basic preventative health services such as vaccination. Very few married women we have met use any form of contraception, even if they do not want to become pregnant. Deliveries are at home, in poor conditions, often under the supervision of a traditional birth attendant.

URL : http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020176

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