Success in reducing maternal and child mortality in Afghanistan

Global Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue SUPPL.1, 2014, Pages

  Rasooly, Mohammad Hafiz ^a   Govindasamy, Pav ^b   Aqil, Anwer ^c   Rutstein, Shea ^b   Arnold, Fred ^b   Noormal, Bashiruddin ^a   Way, Ann ^b   Brock, Susan ^c   Shadoul, Ahmed ^d  

^a Afghan Public Health Institute   (Afghanistan)

^b ICF INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c USAID   (Afghanistan)

^d Office of the WHO Representative   (Afghanistan)

Author keywords

Afghanistan survey; child; infant; maternal mortality; mortality

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; ANTEPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONTRACEPTIVE BEHAVIOR; DIARRHEA; ECLAMPSIA AND PREECLAMPSIA; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT MORTALITY; INFERTILITY; LABOR COMPLICATION; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; MARRIED PERSON; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PERINATAL DEATH; POSTNATAL CARE; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEPSIS; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; VACCINATION; ADULT; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; TRENDS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MIDDLE AGED; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904461695     PISSN: 17441692     EISSN: 17441706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2013.827733     Document Type: Article

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