Stillbirth rates: delivering estimates in 190 countries

Lancet

Volumn 367, Issue 9521, 2006, Pages 1487-1494

  Stanton, Cynthia ^a   Lawn, Joy E ^b,c,d   Rahman, Hafiz ^e   Wilczynska Ketende, Katarzyna ^d,f   Hill, Kenneth ^g  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b SAVE THE CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNICEF   (United States)

^g Harvard Initiative for Global Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; BIRTH RATE; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DELIVERY; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTRATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 33646202385     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68586-3     Document Type: Article

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