Child health on a dollar a day: Some tentative cross-country comparisons

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1529-1538

  Wagstaff, Adam ^a,b  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child health; Inequality; Poverty

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; HEALTH AND DISEASE; HEALTH CARE; POVERTY;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD NUTRITION; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MALNUTRITION; NIGER; POVERTY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; UNDERWEIGHT;

KAZAKHSTAN;

EID: 0041924980     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(02)00555-5     Document Type: Article

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