Twenty-three thousand unnecessary deaths every day: What are you doing about it?

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 608-609

  Shann, Frank ^a   Duke, Trevor ^b  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Child; Child Health Services; Child mortality; Child welfare; Comprehensive health care; Critical care; Developing countries; Health services accessibility; Health status indicators; Infant mortality; Mothers ed Education ; Poverty; Public health practice

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD DEATH; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; EDITORIAL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALARIA; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PEDIATRICS; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; POVERTY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; CRITICAL CARE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; PEDIATRICS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 70349929274     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0b013e3181ae4a95     Document Type: Editorial

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