Quantifying the indirect effects of key child survival interventions for pneumonia, diarrhoea, and measles

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 115-131

  Fischer Walker, C L ^a   Munos, M K ^a   Black, R E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Child survival; indirect effects; interventions; INTs; malaria; measles vaccine; ORS; pneumonia case management

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; MEASLES VACCINE;

BED NET; CASE MANAGEMENT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DIARRHEA; HUMAN; MALARIA; MEASLES; PNEUMONIA; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MEASLES; PNEUMONIA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84870940760     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268812001525     Document Type: Review

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