Infant and second-year mortality in rural Malawi: Causes and descriptive epidemiology

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 55, Issue 1 SUPPL., 1996, Pages 77-81

  Slutsker, Laurence ^d   Bloland, Peter ^d   Steketee, Richard W ^d   Wirima, Jack J ^a   Heymann, David L ^b   Breman, Joel G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PREMATURITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

AGE FACTORS; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALAWI; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029684103     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1996.55.77     Document Type: Article

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