Why are 4 million newborn babies dying each year?

Lancet

Volumn 364, Issue 9432, 2004, Pages 399-401

  Lawn, Joy E ^a   Cousens, Simon ^b   Bhutta, Zulfiqar A ^c   Darmstadt, Gary L ^d   Martines, Jose ^e   Paul, Vinod ^f   Knippenberg, Rudolf ^g   Fogstadt, Helga ^e   Shetty, Priya ^h   Horton, Richard ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

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

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^f Saving Newborn Lives   (India)

^g UNICEF   (United States)

^h THE LANCET   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MATERNAL WELFARE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NEWBORN PERIOD; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 3843064781     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)16783-4     Document Type: Note

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