The importance of preterm births for peri- and neonatal mortality in rural Malawi

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 219-226

  Kulmala, Teija ^a,b   Vaahtera, Merimaaria ^a,b   Ndekha, MacDonald ^c   Koivisto, Anna Maija ^a   Cullinan, Timothy ^c   Salin, Marja Leena ^c,d   Ashorn, Per ^a,b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^d Mannerheim League for Child Welfare ^*  (Malawi)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; DELIVERY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FETUS; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MATERNAL AGE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STILLBIRTH; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALAWI; MALE; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 0033879656     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3016.2000.00270.x     Document Type: Article

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