Descriptive epidemiology of mortality and morbidity of health-indicator diseases in hospitalized children from western jamaica

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 596-600

  McCarthy, James E ^a   Evans Gilbert, Tracy ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^b Department of Paediatrics   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYALINE MEMBRANE DISEASE; INFECTION; JAMAICA; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PREMATURITY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; INFANT; INJURY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASON;

HEXAPODA;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAMAICA; MALE; MORBIDITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 65349093904     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2009.80.596     Document Type: Article

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