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Editorial
. 2010 Jun 21;7(6):e1000300.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000300.

Maternal health: time to deliver

PLoS Medicine Editors
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Editorial

Maternal health: time to deliver

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Abstract

The PLoS Medicine editors argue that maternal health policies must recognize the full spectrum of women's sexual and reproductive health.

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The authors' individual competing interests are at http://www.plosmedicine.org/static/editorsInterests.action. PLoS is funded partly through manuscript publication charges, but the PLoS Medicine Editors are paid a fixed salary (their salary is not linked to the number of papers published in the journal).

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