Covariates of Infant Mortality in China: An Exploratory Approach

Social Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 21-38

  Wang, Duolao ^a   Murphy, Mike ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASIA; CHINA; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EASTERN ASIA; ECONOMIC FACTORS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT MORTALITY--DETERMINANTS; MATERNAL AGE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; MORTALITY DETERMINANTS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ASIA; CHINA; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EASTERN ASIA; ECONOMIC FACTORS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; INFANT MORTALITY--DETERMINANTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; MORTALITY DETERMINANTS; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

CHINA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MATERNAL AGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0032019065     PISSN: 0037766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19485565.1998.9988962     Document Type: Article

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