Recent trend of the incidence of sudden infant death syndrome in Japan

Early Human Development

Volumn 75, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages 175-179

  Sawaguchi, Toshiko ^a   Namiki, Mizuho ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Infant mortality; Japan; Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; JAPAN; MORTALITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PERINATAL DEATH; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; TRAINING; INFANT MORTALITY; NEWBORN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH;

EID: 10644254332     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2003.08.020     Document Type: Article

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