Prioritizing child health interventions in Ethiopia: Modeling impact on child mortality, life expectancy and inequality in age at death

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Onarheim, Kristine Husøy ^a   Tessema, Solomon ^b   Johansson, Kjell Arne ^a   Eide, Kristiane Tislevoll ^a   Norheim, Ole Frithjof ^a   Miljeteig, Ingrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP) Ethiopia   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; ETHIOPIA; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIVES SAVED TOOL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK REDUCTION; SCALE UP;

AGING; CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD WELFARE; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84864696399     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041521     Document Type: Article

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