Child Mortality Estimation: A Comparison of UN IGME and IHME Estimates of Levels and Trends in Under-Five Mortality Rates and Deaths

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Alkema, Leontine ^a   You, Danzhen ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNITED NATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DATA BASE; DEATH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; LIVE BIRTH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGISTRATION; RELIABILITY; RISK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISASTER; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; PREVALENCE; REGISTER; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED NATIONS;

CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; DATABASES AS TOPIC; DEATH; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISASTERS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; UNITED NATIONS;

EID: 84865542327     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001288     Document Type: Article

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