Estimating the causes of 4 million neonatal deaths in the year 2000

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 706-718

  Lawn, Joy E ^a,b   Wilczynska Ketende, Katarzyna ^b,c   Cousens, Simon N ^d  

^a Save the Children   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNICEF   (United States)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cause of death; Infant; Mortality; Newborn

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; ESTIMATION METHOD; INFANT MORTALITY; MODELING; NEONATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONGENITAL DISORDER; DATA ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN HYPOXIA; NEWBORN TETANUS; PNEUMONIA; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; REGISTRATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SEPSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIARRHEA; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PNEUMONIA; SEPSIS; TETANUS; UNCERTAINTY; VITAL STATISTICS;

EID: 33646471734     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyl043     Document Type: Article

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