Tracking progress towards equitable child survival in a Nicaraguan community: Neonatal mortality challenges to meet the MDG 4

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Pérez, Wilton ^a,b   Peña, Rodolfo ^a   Persson, Lars Åke ^b   Källestål, Carina ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; NICARAGUA; SURVIVAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; NICARAGUA; SURVIVAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958068772     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-455     Document Type: Article

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