Reducing global neonatal mortality is possible

Neonatology

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 250-257

  Saugstad, Ola Didrik ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Millennium Development Goal 4; Neonatal mortality; Political will

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ESSENTIAL DRUG; PROGESTERONE; STEROID; SURFACTANT; VITAMIN K GROUP;

BREAST FEEDING; BREECH PRESENTATION; CHILE; CLEFT LIP; CONFERENCE PAPER; CUBA; DELIVERY; DYSTOCIA; GONORRHEA; GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MATERNAL WELFARE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PERINATAL DEATH; PORTUGAL; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SMOKING CESSATION; SOUTH ASIA; VAGINITIS;

ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; MALE; PREGNANCY; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 78349282718     PISSN: 16617800     EISSN: 16617819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000320332     Document Type: Conference Paper

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