Governance matters: An ecological association between governance and child mortality

International Health

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 249-257

  Lin, Ro Ting ^a   Chien, Lung Chang ^b,c   Chen, Ya Mei ^a   Chan, Chang Chuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Child mortality; Governance; Social determinants; Urbanization; World health

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DISEASE CONTROL; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HYGIENE; IMMUNIZATION; LAW; PARTICIPATORY MANAGEMENT; PERCEPTION; TIME; URBANIZATION; VIOLENCE; VOICE; CHILD; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; POLITICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MALE; POLITICS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84907521725     PISSN: 18763413     EISSN: 18763405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/inthealth/ihu018     Document Type: Article

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