Can mass media interventions reduce child mortality?

The Lancet

Volumn 386, Issue 9988, 2015, Pages 97-100

  Head, Roy ^a   Murray, Joanna ^a   Sarrassat, Sophie ^b   Snell, Will ^a   Meda, Nicolas ^d   Ouedraogo, Moctar ^c   Deboise, Laurent ^b   Cousens, Simon ^d  

^a Media Players International   (United Kingdom)

^b Ouagadougou University   (Burkina Faso)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRE MURAZ   (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COST; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MASS MEDIUM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; BURKINA FASO; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROMOTION; PROCEDURES; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BURKINA FASO; CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MASS MEDIA; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84937515406     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61649-4     Document Type: Note

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