Infant mortality: Some international comparisons

Pediatrics

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1020-1027

  Wegman, Myron E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

infant mortality rates; international health; live births; teenage pregnancy; total fertility rates

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; BIRTH RATE; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; STILLBIRTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; BIRTH RATE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0029860341     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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