Mortality risks in children aged 5-14 years in low-income and middle-income countries: A systematic empirical analysis

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2015, Pages e609-e616

  Hill, Kenneth ^a   Zimmerman, Linnea ^a   Jamison, Dean T ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LIFE TABLE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; INCOME; INFANT; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; INFANT; MALE; POVERTY; RISK;

EID: 84941802493     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(15)00044-3     Document Type: Article

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