Infant morbidity in an Indian slum birth cohort

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 479-484

  Gladstone, B P ^a   Muliyil, J P ^a   Jaffar, S ^b   Wheeler, J G ^b   Le Fevre, A ^b   Iturriza Gomara, M ^c   Gray, J J ^c   Bose, A ^a   Estes, M K ^d   Brown, D W ^c   Kang, G ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

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

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INFANT MORBIDITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; URBAN POPULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; INFANT; INFANTILE DIARRHEA; MULTICENTER STUDY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SEASON; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TOBACCO;

PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT;

COHORT STUDIES; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PLANT PREPARATIONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POVERTY AREAS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TOBACCO;

EID: 45549093329     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2006.114546     Document Type: Article

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