Prospective community-based cluster census and case-control study of stillbirths and neonatal deaths in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 321-333

  Kalter, Henry D ^a   Khazen, Reem Rahil ^b   Barghouthi, Mustafa ^b   Odeh, Mohammed ^b  

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

^b Health Development Information and Policy Institute   (Palestine)

Author keywords

Health care; Neonatal deaths; Palestine; Perinatal; Stillbirths

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LABOR; MARRIED WOMAN; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN SEPSIS; OBSTETRIC CARE; PERINATAL DEATH; PERINATAL MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANT WOMAN; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; RISK FACTOR; STILLBIRTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; PERINATAL CARE; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; REFUGEES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STILLBIRTH; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 45249102024     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: 13653016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.2008.00943.x     Document Type: Article

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