National, regional, and global sex ratios of infant, child, and under-5 mortality and identification of countries with outlying ratios: A systematic assessment

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2014, Pages e521-e530

  Alkema, Leontine ^a   Chao, Fengqing ^a   You, Danzhen ^b   Pedersen, Jon ^c   Sawyer, Cheryl C ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNITED NATIONS   (United States)

^c Fafo Institute of Applied International Studies   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; CARIBBEAN; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; FEMALE; FEMALE MORTALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEX RATIO; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BAYES THEOREM; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX RATIO;

EID: 84908462634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(14)70280-3     Document Type: Article

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