Infant mortality trends in a region of Belarus, 1980-2000

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Zichittela, Lauren J ^a,b   Mahoney, Martin C ^b,c,e   Lawvere, Silvana ^b,c   Michalek, Arthur M ^b,c   Chunikhovskiy, Sergey P ^d   Khotianov, Natan ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d Mogilev Regional Children's Hospital   (Belarus)

^e UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Chernobyl; Epidemiology; Infant deaths; Neonatal deaths; Postneonatal deaths; Public health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BELARUS; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD CARE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DISASTER; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; MATERNAL CARE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; POSTNATAL CARE; PRENATAL CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES; USSR;

CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; REPUBLIC OF BELARUS; RUSSIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2642555590     PISSN: 14712431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-4-3     Document Type: Article

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