Infant and fetal mortality among a high fertility and mortality population in the Bolivian Amazon

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2493-2502

  Gurven, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amerindian; Bolivia; Fetal death; Indigenous health; Infant mortality; Tsimane

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; FERTILITY; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; INFANT MORTALITY; LIFESTYLE; MODERNIZATION;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BOLIVIA; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FETUS; FETUS MORTALITY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFECTION; INTERVIEW; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MORBIDITY; PARITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STUNTING; UNDERWEIGHT; WASTING SYNDROME;

BOLIVIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FETAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AMAZONIA; BOLIVIA;

EID: 84869497124     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.09.030     Document Type: Article

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