Global, regional, and national levels and trends in under-5 mortality between 1990 and 2015, with scenario-based projections to 2030: A systematic analysis by the un Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation

The Lancet

Volumn 386, Issue 10010, 2015, Pages 2275-2286

  You, Danzhen ^a   Hug, Lucia ^a   Ejdemyr, Simon ^a   Idele, Priscila ^a   Hogan, Daniel ^b   Mathers, Colin ^b   Gerland, Patrick ^c   New, Jin Rou ^d   Alkema, Leontine ^e  

^a UNICEF   (United States)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c UNITED NATIONS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ASIA; BAYES THEOREM; CARIBBEAN; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DATA BASE; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOUTH ASIA; STATISTICAL BIAS; SURVIVAL; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UNITED NATIONS;

CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; UNITED NATIONS;

EID: 84949538650     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00120-8     Document Type: Article

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