The comparative role of consanguinity in infant and childhood mortality in Pakistan

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 143-149

  Grant, J C ^b   Bittles, A H ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Joondalup Campus ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH ORDER; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONSANGUINITY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; FETUS OUTCOME; GENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INBREEDING; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; PAKISTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSANGUINITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MORTALITY; ODDS RATIO; PAKISTAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030982697     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003480097006039     Document Type: Article

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