Annual rates of decline in child, maternal, HIV, and tuberculosis mortality across 109 countries of low and middle income from 1990 to 2013: An assessment of the feasibility of post-2015 goals

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2014, Pages e698-e709

  Verguet, Stéphane ^a   Norheim, Ole Frithjof ^b   Olson, Zachary D ^a   Yamey, Gavin ^c   Jamison, Dean T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DETERIORATION; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION MORTALITY; INCOME; INFANT; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PUBLIC HEALTH; TUBERCULOSIS MORTALITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HIV INFECTIONS; MOTIVATION; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; TUBERCULOSIS;

CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GOALS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; MATERNAL MORTALITY; POVERTY; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84918836843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(14)70316-X     Document Type: Article

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