Modelling determinants of child mortality and poverty in the Comoros

Health and Place

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 13-42

  Lachaud, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Infant mortality; Infanto juvenile mortality; Poverty

Indexed keywords

CHILD MORTALITY; MORBIDITY; POVERTY DETERMINANT; STANDARD OF LIVING;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILDBIRTH; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COMMUNITY; COMOROS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFANT; MORBIDITY; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RURAL AREA; SURVIVAL RATE;

COMOROS; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS;

EID: 0345293361     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1353-8292(02)00070-9     Document Type: Article

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