Does health intervention improve socioeconomic inequalities of neonatal, infant and child mortality? Evidence from Matlab, Bangladesh

International Journal for Equity in Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Razzaque, Abdur ^a,b   Streatfield, Peter Kim ^a   Gwatkin, Dave R ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BIRTH RATE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LIFE TABLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 34250704241     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14759276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-6-4     Document Type: Article

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