Corruption kills: Estimating the global impact of corruption on children deaths

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Hanf, Matthieu ^a,b   Van Melle, Astrid ^a,b   Fraisse, Florence ^a   Roger, Amaury ^a   Carme, Bernard ^a,b   Nacher, Mathieu ^a,b  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE CAYENNE   (French Guiana)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES ET DE LA GUYANE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID CLIMATE; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLIMATE; CORRUPTION; DEPENDENCY RATIO; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH CARE COST; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POLITICS; SANITATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIOECONOMICS; CHILD; CRIME; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; CLIMATE; CRIME; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SANITARY ENGINEERING;

EID: 80355146199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026990     Document Type: Article

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