What will it take to stop the needless deaths of millions of women and children each year?

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 249-256

  Williams, Phoebe ^a  

^a Founder Hands of Help ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

child; community based; inequality; malnutrition; maternal; MDG

Indexed keywords

CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FUNDING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SERVICE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; MALARIA; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN PERIOD; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PNEUMONIA; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SANITATION; SURVIVAL;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MATERNAL MORTALITY; POVERTY; PREGNANCY;

EID: 79957597805     PISSN: 10344810     EISSN: 14401754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1754.2010.01731.x     Document Type: Review

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