Infant mortality reviews in the Aberdeen Area of the Indian Health Service: Strategies and outcomes

Public Health Reports

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 140-148

  Eagle, Mary Lynn ^a   Klug, Marilyn G ^b   Burd, Larry ^b  

^a INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; CULTURAL FACTOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INDIAN; INFANT MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; ARTICLE; FEMALE; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RECURRENT DISEASE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL CARE; RECURRENCE; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE;

EID: 33645459378     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: 00333549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003335490612100207     Document Type: Review

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