Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 10, Issue 20 , Pages 117-126 , November 2002

Women’s Health, Changes and Challenges in Health Policy Development in Lithuania

  • Ramune Kalediene

      Affiliations

    • Professor, Dean of Faculty of Public Health, Head of Department of Social Medicine, Kaunas University of Medicine, Lithuania
  • ,
  • Ruta Nadisauskiene

      Affiliations

    • Professor, Head of Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Kaunas University of Medicine, Lithuania

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Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 10, Issue 20 , Pages 117-126 , November 2002