3.2 million stillbirths: Epidemiology and overview of the evidence review

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 9, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Lawn, Joy E ^a,b,c   Yakoob, Mohammad ^d   Haws, Rachel A ^e   Soomro, Tanya ^d   Darmstadt, Gary L ^e   Bhutta, Zulfiqar A ^d  

^a Save the Children   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^d AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA CAROTENE; CALCIUM; FOLIC ACID; HEPARIN; IRON; MAGNESIUM; TRACE ELEMENT; VITAMIN;

ASPHYXIA; ASYMPTOMATIC BACTERIURIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD DEATH; COMMUNITY PROGRAM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FAMILY ATTITUDE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FETUS HYPOXIA; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAGNESIUM DEFICIENCY; MALARIA; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NEWBORN DEATH; OBSTETRIC CARE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; TABOO; UTERINE CERVIX CERCLAGE; VAGINITIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

CAUSALITY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK FACTORS; STILLBIRTH; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 65649152366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-9-S1-S2     Document Type: Review

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