Travel Time to Access Obstetric and Neonatal Care in the United States

Affiliations

¹ Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; the Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; the Department of Epidemiology, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany; and the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.

Lina Roa et al. Obstet Gynecol. 2020 Sep.

. 2020 Sep;136(3):610-612.

doi: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000004053.

¹ Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; the Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; the Department of Epidemiology, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany; and the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.

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