Trends in under-five mortality in Uganda 1954-2000: Can millennium development goals be met?

African Health Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 125-128

  Nuwaha, Fred ^a   Mukulu, Andrew ^b  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Uganda)

^b Uganda Bureau of Statistics   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Annual average reduction rate; Child health; Childhood mortality; Millennium development goal; Social economic development; Uganda

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UGANDA; UNDER FIVE MORTALITY; UNITED NATIONS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CENSUSES; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UGANDA; UNITED NATIONS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 68949218350     PISSN: 16806905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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