Explaining changes in child health inequality in the run up to the 2015 millennium development goals (MDGs): The case of Zambia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Hangoma, Peter ^a,b   Aakvik, Arild ^a   Robberstad, Bjarne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH ORDER; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH INEQUALITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; SOCIAL STATUS; STUNTING; ZAMBIA; ALGORITHM; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEALTH SURVEY; MOTHER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FEVER; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTHERS; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; ZAMBIA;

EID: 85012005041     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0170995     Document Type: Article

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