Progress and priorities for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health in Kenya: a Countdown to 2015 country case study

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2017, Pages e782-e795

  Keats, Emily C ^a   Ngugi, Anthony ^b   Macharia, William ^b   Akseer, Nadia ^a,c   Khaemba, Emma Nelima ^b   Bhatti, Zaid ^b   Rizvi, Arjumand ^b   Tole, John ^b   Bhutta, Zulfiqar A ^a,b,c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BREAST FEEDING EDUCATION; CHILD HEALTH; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DIARRHEA; ECLAMPSIA; FAMILY PLANNING; FAMILY SIZE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; KENYA; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LITERACY; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL PREDICTION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VACCINATION; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; NEWBORN; OBSTETRIC DELIVERY; PREGNANCY; TRENDS; VACCINATION COVERAGE;

CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD MORTALITY; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT HEALTH; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; KENYA; MATERNAL HEALTH; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; VACCINATION COVERAGE;

EID: 85030468954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(17)30246-2     Document Type: Article

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