The Global distribution of infant mortality: A subnational spatial view

Population, Space and Place

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 209-229

  Storeygard, Adam ^a   Balk, Deborah ^b   Levy, Marc ^c   Deane, Glenn ^d  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Center for International Forestry Research   (United States)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Biome; Coast; Global; Infant mortality; Population and environment; Spatial demography

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; DATA SET; INFANT MORTALITY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 43849085329     PISSN: 15448444     EISSN: 15448452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psp.484     Document Type: Article

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