The impact of eliminating within-country inequality in health coverage on maternal and child mortality: A Lives Saved Tool analysis

BMC Public Health

Volumn 17, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Clermont, Adrienne ^a  

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

Author keywords

Equity; Inequality; Intervention coverage; Lives Saved Tool; MNCH

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 85032960702     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-017-4737-2     Document Type: Article

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