Etiology of child mortality in Goroka, Papua New Guinea: A prospective two-year study

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 16-25

  Duke, Trevor ^a   Michael, Audrey ^a   Mgone, Joyce ^a   Frank, Dale ^a   Wal, Tilda ^a   Sehuko, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Age factors; Cause of death; Confounding factors (Epidemiology); Hospital mortality; Infant mortality; Papua New Guinea (source: MeSH, NLM); Prospective studies; Sepsis mortality

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; METICILLIN;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD HEALTH; INFANT MORTALITY; MORTALITY RISK; RISK FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONGENITAL SYPHILIS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARASMUS; MENINGITIS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPTICEMIA; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; VIRUS DISEASES;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 0036177462     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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