Interplay of socio-economic factors, consanguinity, fertility, and offspring mortality in Monastir, Tunisia

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 701-707

  Kerkeni, Emna ^a   Monastiri, Kamel ^b,c   Saket, Besma ^b,c   Guediche, Mohamed Neji ^b   Cheikh, Hassen Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^b EPS F Bourguiba of Monastir ^*  (Tunisia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FERTILITY; HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL WELFARE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PROGENY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; TUNISIA;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CAUSALITY; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSANGUINITY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MARRIAGE; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TUNISIA;

EID: 35649011951     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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