Burden of illness in the first 3 years of life in an Indian slum

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 221-226

  Gladstone, Beryl P ^a   Das, Ashima R ^a   Rehman, Andrea M ^b   Jaffar, Shabbar ^b   Estes, Mary K ^c   Muliyil, Jayaprakash ^a   Kang, Gagandeep ^a   Bose, Anuradha ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory infections; Childhood morbidity; India

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URBAN AREA;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MORBIDITY; POVERTY AREAS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 77955042808     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: 14653664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmp116     Document Type: Article

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