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Child Mortality Estimation: A Global Overview of Infant and Child Mortality Age Patterns in Light of New Empirical Data

BACKGROUND: The under-five mortality rate (the probability of dying between birth and age 5 y, also denoted in the literature as U5MR and (5) q (0)) is a key indicator of child health, but it conceals important information about how this mortality is distributed by age. One important distinction is...

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Autores principales: Guillot, Michel, Gerland, Patrick, Pelletier, François, Saabneh, Ameed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3429403/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22952438
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001299