Progress in reducing inequalities in reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health in Latin America and the Caribbean: An unfinished agenda

Revista Panamericana de Salud Publica/Pan American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 9-16

  Restrepo Méndez, María Clara ^a   Barros, Aluísio J D ^a   Requejo, Jennifer ^b   Durán, Pablo ^c   De Francisco Serpa, Luis Andrés ^b   França, Giovanny V A ^a   Wehrmeister, Fernando C ^a   Victora, Cesar G ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^b Newborn and Child Health   (Switzerland)

^c Org Panamericana de la Salud   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Caribbean Region; Health inequalities; Latin America; Maternal and child health; Millennium Development Goals; Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; CHILD MORTALITY; HEALTH MONITORING; MATERNAL HEALTH; MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

BOLIVIA; BRAZIL; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; HAITI; LATIN AMERICA; PERU;

CARIBBEAN; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH EQUITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; TRENDS;

CARIBBEAN REGION; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD MORTALITY; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEALTH EQUITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT HEALTH; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LATIN AMERICA; MATERNAL HEALTH; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MORBIDITY; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH;

EID: 84944029542     PISSN: 10204989     EISSN: 16805348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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