Rates, timing and causes of neonatal deaths in rural India: Implications for neonatal health programmes

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 84, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 706-713

  Baqui, A H ^a,b   Darmstadt, G L ^a,c   Williams, E K ^a   Kumar, V ^a   Kiran, T U ^d   Panwar, D ^d   Srivastava, V K ^e   Ahuja, R ^e   Black, R E ^a   Santoshama, M ^a  

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

^b Save the Children US ^*  (United States)

^c SAVE THE CHILDREN   (United States)

^d CARE India   (India)

^e KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD CARE; INJURY; MORTALITY; NEONATE; PNEUMONIA; RURAL AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIRTH INJURY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN DEATH; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PNEUMONIA; PREMATURE LABOR; SEPSIS; STILLBIRTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH; SEPSIS; STILLBIRTH;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; UTTAR PRADESH;

EID: 33749262605     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.05.026443     Document Type: Article

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