Verbal/social autopsy study helps explain the lack of decrease in neonatal mortality in Niger, 2007-2010

Journal of Global Health

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Kalter, Henry ^a   Yaroh, Asma Gali ^b   Maina, Abdou ^c   Koffi, Alain K ^a   Bensaïd, Khaled ^d   Amouzou, Agbessi ^d   Black, Robert E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Ministry of Health   (Niger)

^c Institute National des Statistics   (Niger)

^d UNICEF   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INTERVIEW; LABOR COMPLICATION; MALE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN HYPOXIA; NIGER; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL CARE; PROCEDURES; RURAL POPULATION; TRENDS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; NIGER; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL CARE; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84999133670     PISSN: 20472978     EISSN: 20472986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7189/jogh.06.010604     Document Type: Article

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