China's facility-based birth strategy and neonatal mortality: A population-based epidemiological study

The Lancet

Volumn 378, Issue 9801, 2011, Pages 1493-1500

  Feng, Xing Lin ^a   Guo, Sufang ^b   Hipgrave, David ^b   Zhu, Jun ^c   Zhang, Lingli ^d   Song, Li ^d   Yang, Qing ^d   Guo, Yan ^a   Ronsmans, Carine ^e  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b UNICEF   (United States)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINA; CONGENITAL DISORDER; FACILITY BASED BIRTH STRATEGY; HOME DELIVERY; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INTRAPARTUM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA;

EID: 80054881469     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61096-9     Document Type: Article

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