Young Children's Probability of Dying Before and After Their Mother's Death: A Rural South African Population-Based Surveillance Study

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Clark, Samuel J ^a,b,c,d   Kahn, Kathleen ^b,c,d,e   Houle, Brian ^a,b   Arteche, Adriane ^f   Collinson, Mark A ^c,d,e   Tollman, Stephen M ^b,c,d,e   Stein, Alan ^c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d Iganga Mayuge Health and Demographic Surveillance Site   (Ghana)

^e UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEATH; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILD NUTRITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DYING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTOR; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; TUBERCULOSIS;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MOTHERS; ODDS RATIO; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROBABILITY; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84875479611     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001409     Document Type: Article

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