Improvements in Neonatal and Childhood Medical Care – Perspective from the Balkans

Frontiers in Public Health

Volumn 3, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Velickovic, Vesna ^a   Simovic, Aleksandra ^a,b   Lazarevic, Gordana ^a   Lazarevic, Marija ^b   Jakovljevic, Mihajlo ^b  

^a Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Kragujevac University at Kragujevac   (Serbia)

^b University of Kragujevac Medical Faculty   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Balkans; childhood; health reform; neonatal care; outcomes; pediatrics; SEE; Serbia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962912580     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2015.00206     Document Type: Article

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