Geographical Inequalities and Social and Environmental Risk Factors for Under-Five Mortality in Ghana in 2000 and 2010: Bayesian Spatial Analysis of Census Data

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Arku, Raphael E ^a   Bennett, James E ^b   Castro, Marcia C ^a   Agyeman Duah, Kofi ^c   Mintah, Samilia E ^c   Ware, James H ^a   Nyarko, Philomena ^c   Spengler, John D ^a   Agyei Mensah, Samuel ^d   Ezzati, Majid ^b,e  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Ghana Statistical Office   (Ghana)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^e WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SANITATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WATER SUPPLY; YOUNG ADULT; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; GEOGRAPHY; GHANA; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; NEWBORN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

BAYES THEOREM; CENSUSES; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GHANA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84978035645     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002038     Document Type: Article

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