Mapping for maternal and newborn health: The distributions of women of childbearing age, pregnancies and births

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Tatem, Andrew J ^a,b   Campbell, James ^c   Guerra Arias, Maria ^c   de Bernis, Luc ^d   Moran, Allisyn ^e   Matthews, Zoë ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c ICS Instituto de Cooperación Social Integrare   (Spain)

^d UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND   (United States)

^e UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; CHILD HEALTH; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH SERVICES; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; MAPPING METHOD; PREGNANCY; UNITED NATIONS; WOMENS HEALTH;

AFGHANISTAN; BANGLADESH; ETHIOPIA; TANZANIA;

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BIRTH RATE; ETHIOPIA; ETHNOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT WELFARE; LIVE BIRTH; MATERNAL WELFARE; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; TANZANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; BANGLADESH; BIRTH RATE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HUMANS; INFANT WELFARE; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIVE BIRTH; MATERNAL WELFARE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; TANZANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891531297     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-13-2     Document Type: Article

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