Burden of surgical congenital anomalies in Kenya: A population-based study

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 195-202

  Wu, Victor K ^a   Poenaru, Dan ^a   Poley, Marten J ^b,c  

^a AIC KIJABE HOSPITAL   (Kenya)

^b SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Africa; Burden of disease; Congenital malformations; Pediatric surgery; Population survey

Indexed keywords

ANUS ATRESIA; ARTICLE; BLADDER EXSTROPHY; CAREGIVER; CLEFT LIP; CLUBFOOT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPOSPADIAS; INFANT; KENYA; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PREVALENCE; RURAL AREA; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN AREA;

AFRICA; BURDEN OF DISEASE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POPULATION SURVEY;

CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; COST OF ILLNESS; DISABLED PERSONS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KENYA; MALE; PEDIATRICS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84878654808     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: 14653664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmt001     Document Type: Article

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