Monitoring country progress and achievements by making global predictions: is the tail wagging the dog?

The Lancet

Volumn 392, Issue 10147, 2018, Pages 607-609

  Boerma, Ties ^a   Victora, Cesar ^b   Abouzahr, Carla ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b University of Pelotas   (Brazil)

^c Independent Global Health Consultant   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; COUNTRY ECONOMIC STATUS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MONITORING; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CHILD; FORECASTING; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOTIVATION; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FORECASTING; GLOBAL HEALTH; GOALS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MATERNAL MORTALITY;

EID: 85045302779     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30586-5     Document Type: Note

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