Millennium development health metrics: Where do Africa's children and women of childbearing age live?

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Tatem, Andrew J ^a,b   Garcia, Andres J ^c   Snow, Robert W ^d,e   Noor, Abdisalan M ^d,e   Gaughan, Andrea E ^c   Gilbert, Marius ^f,g   Linard, Catherine ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^g FNRS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Demography; Mapping; Millenium development goals; Population

Indexed keywords

AGE; CHILDBEARING; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH RISK; HETEROGENEITY; MAPPING; MODELING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WOMENS HEALTH;

AFRICA; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILDBEARING AGE; COMMUNITY LIVING; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GROUPS BY AGE; GROWTH RATE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH STATUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MATERNAL CARE; MOTIVATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

AFRICA;

EID: 84880334486     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-11-11     Document Type: Article

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