Can we achieve Millennium Development Goal 4? New analysis of country trends and forecasts of under-5 mortality to 2015

Lancet

Volumn 370, Issue 9592, 2007, Pages 1040-1054

  Murray, Christopher JL ^a   Laakso, Thomas ^a   Shibuya, Kenji ^b   Hill, Kenneth ^c   Lopez, Alan D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c HARVARD CENTER FOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEATH; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; EUROPE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; MIDDLE EAST; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NORTH AFRICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TREND STUDY;

EID: 34548668669     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61478-0     Document Type: Article

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