Changes in the pattern of infant and childhood mortality in Upper River Division, The Gambia, from 1989 to 1993

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 28-37

  Jaffar, S ^a,b   Leach, A ^a   Greenwood, A M ^a   Jepson, A ^a,c   Muller, O ^a   Ota, M O C ^a   Bojang, K ^a   Obaro, S ^a   Greenwood, B M ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ARI; childhood mortality; malaria; post mortem questionnaires; The Gambia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEATH; CHILDBIRTH; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GAMBIA; GASTROENTERITIS; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFANT; MALARIA; MALNUTRITION; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEPTICEMIA;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY INFECTION; CHILD MORTALITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; INFANT AND CHILD MORTALITY; INFANT MORTALITY; MALARIA; MORTALITY RATE;

GAMBIA, UPPER RIVER DIVISION;

EID: 0030618007     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1997.d01-131.x     Document Type: Article

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