Time to focus child survival programmes on the newborn: Assessment of levels and causes of infant mortality in rural Pakistan

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 271-276

  Fikree, Fariyal F ^a   Azam, Syed Iqbal ^b   Berendes, Heinz W ^c  

^a POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Cause of death; Infant mortality; Infant, Newborn; Pakistan; Rural population; Sampling studies

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; INFANT MORTALITY; RURAL POPULATION; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; BIRTH INJURY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DIARRHEA; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFECTION RATE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PAKISTAN; PREMATURITY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RURAL AREA; SAMPLING; SURVIVAL RATE; TETANUS;

CAUSE OF DEATH; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERVIEWS; PAKISTAN; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

PAKISTAN;

EID: 0036244633     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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