Child Mortality Estimation: A Global Overview of Infant and Child Mortality Age Patterns in Light of New Empirical Data

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Guillot, Michel ^a   Gerland, Patrick ^b   Pelletier, François ^b   Saabneh, Ameed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNITED NATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; AGE; ARTICLE; ASIA; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; JAPAN; LIFE TABLE; MALE; NEWBORN; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NORTH AMERICA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; USSR; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; DATABASES AS TOPIC; DEMOGRAPHY; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HEALTH SURVEYS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERNATIONALITY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84865535316     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001299     Document Type: Article

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