Infant mortality decline in Armenia: Why with uneven rates?

Economics and Human Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 134-137

  Hakobyan, Mihran ^a   Yepiskoposyan, Levon ^b  

^a UNICEF   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Armenia)

Author keywords

Armenia; Infant mortality; Neonatal mortality; Socio economic and geographic inequalities

Indexed keywords

ARMENIA; ARTICLE; CHILD DEATH; CHILD HEALTH; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LIVE BIRTH; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; POVERTY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ARMENIA; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 74749084457     PISSN: 1570677X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2009.07.001     Document Type: Article

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