Born too small or too soon

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Kramer, Michael S ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH WEIGHT; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; LETTER; NEWBORN DEATH; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; MALE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE;

EID: 84887544099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(13)70014-7     Document Type: Letter

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