Childhood mortality due to drowning in rural Matlab of Bangladesh: Magnitude of the problem and proposed solutions

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 370-376

  Iqbal, Anwarul ^a   Shirin, Tahmina ^b   Ahmed, Tahmeed ^a   Ahmed, Sirajuddin ^a   Islam, Noor ^a   Sobhan, Arif ^a   Siddique, A K ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b National Institute of Kidney Diseases and Urology   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Awareness; Bangladesh; Causes of death; Child mortality; Drowning; Infant mortality; Interventions; Observational studies

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; DROWNING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEASON; SEX RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BANGLADESH; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DROWNING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; SEASONS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 36949026892     PISSN: 16060997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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