Causes of early childhood deaths in Urban Dhaka, Bangladesh

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Halder, Amal K ^a   Gurley, Emily S ^a   Naheed, Aliya ^a   Saha, Samir K ^b   Brooks, W Abdullah ^a   El Arifeen, Shams ^a   Sazzad, Hossain M S ^a   Kenah, Eben ^c   Luby, Stephen P ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b DHAKA SHISHU HOSPITAL   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFANT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGITIS; NEWBORN; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURITY; PROTEIN CALORIE MALNUTRITION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEPSIS; URBAN AREA; CAUSE OF DEATH; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

BANGLADESH; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 77949536167     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008145     Document Type: Article

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