Progress towards Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 on maternal and child mortality: An updated systematic analysis

The Lancet

Volumn 378, Issue 9797, 2011, Pages 1139-1165

  Lozano, Rafael ^a   Wang, Haidong ^a   Foreman, Kyle J ^a   Rajaratnam, Julie Knoll ^a   Naghavi, Mohsen ^a   Marcus, Jake R ^a   Dwyer Lindgren, Laura ^a   Lofgren, Katherine T ^a   Phillips, David ^a   Atkinson, Charles ^a   Lopez, Alan D ^b   Murray, Christopher J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED NATIONS; VALIDITY;

EID: 80053253566     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61337-8     Document Type: Article

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