Inequities among the very poor: Health care for children in rural southern Tanzania

Lancet

Volumn 361, Issue 9357, 2003, Pages 561-566

  Schellenberg, Joanna Armstrong ^a,b,h   Victora, Cesar G ^c   Mushi, Adiel ^a   De Savigny, Don ^d,e   Schellenberg, David ^a,f   Mshinda, Hassan ^a   Bryce, Jennifer ^g  

^a IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^d Elderly and Children   (Tanzania)

^e INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^f HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^g WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^h LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALE; PNEUMONIA; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMICS; TANZANIA;

EID: 0037442082     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)12515-9     Document Type: Article

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