Changes in cause-specific neonatal and 1–59-month child mortality in India from 2000 to 2015: a nationally representative survey

The Lancet

Volumn 390, Issue 10106, 2017, Pages 1972-1980

  Fadel, Shaza A ^a   Rasaily, Reeta ^a   Awasthi, Shally ^a   Begum, Rehana ^a   Black, Robert E ^a   Gelband, Hellen ^a   Gerland, Patrick ^a   Kumar, Rajesh ^a   Liu, Li ^a   Mathers, Colin ^a   Morris, Shaun K ^a   Nair, Saritha ^a   Newcombe, Leslie ^a   Pandey, Arvind ^a   Ram, Faujdar ^a   Ram, Usha ^a   Rodriguez, Peter S ^a   Sahu, Damodar ^a   Sati, Prabha ^a   Shah, Prakash J ^a   Shet, Anita ^a   Sheth, Jay ^a   Singh, Jitenkumar K ^a   Singh, Lucky ^a   Sinha, Anju ^a   Suraweera, Wilson ^a   Jha, Prabhat ^a   more..

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOME; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; INFECTION; INJURY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MEASLES; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NEWBORN TETANUS; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PNEUMONIA; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SEX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TERM BIRTH; URBAN AREA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFANT MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRENDS; URBAN POPULATION;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 85029591078     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32162-1     Document Type: Article

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