Armed conflict and child mortality in Africa: a geospatial analysis

The Lancet

Volumn 392, Issue 10150, 2018, Pages 857-865

  Wagner, Zachary ^a   Heft Neal, Sam ^b   Bhutta, Zulfiqar A ^c,d   Black, Robert E ^e   Burke, Marshall ^b   Bendavid, Eran ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^d AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DEMOGRAPHY; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; WAR; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AFRICA; ARMED CONFLICTS; CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 85053859030     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31437-5     Document Type: Article

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