Women's education and health inequalities in under-five mortality in selected sub-saharan African countries, 1990-2015

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Bado, Aristide Romaric ^a   Susuman, A Sathiya ^b  

^a Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé   (Burkina Faso)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; BURKINA FASO; CAMEROON; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; GUINEA; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFANT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALAWI; MORTALITY RATE; MOTHER; NAMIBIA; NIGER; ZAMBIA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRENDS;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; COHORT STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84979608666     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0159186     Document Type: Article

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