Tackling health inequities in Chile: Maternal, newborn, infant, and child mortality between 1990 and 2004

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1220-1226

  Gonzalez, Rogelio ^a,b   Requejo, Jennifer Harris ^d   Jyh, Kae Nien ^a   Merialdi, Mario ^c   Bustreo, Flavia ^d   Betran, Ana Pilar ^c  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b Ministerio de Salud de Chile   (Chile)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d World Health Organization ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CHILE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SCHOOL CHILD; STILLBIRTH; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; INFANT MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHILE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 67650747491     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.143578     Document Type: Article

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