Neonatal mortality-4 million reasons for progress

The Lancet

Volumn 371, Issue 9628, 2008, Pages 1893-1895

  Thea, Donald ^a   Qazi, Shamim ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHILD CARE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN DISEASE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PNEUMONIA; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 44649092753     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60810-7     Document Type: Note

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