Young and vulnerable: Spatial-temporal trends and risk factors for infant mortality in rural South Africa (Agincourt), 1992-2007

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Sartorius, Benn K D ^a   Kahn, Kathleen ^a,b,c   Vounatsou, Penelope ^d   Collinson, Mark A ^a,b,c   Tollman, Stephen M ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Ghana)

^d SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEWBORN; POVERTY; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MIDDLE AGED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POVERTY; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958133812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-645     Document Type: Article

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