Factors associated with infant and adolescent mortality

Factors associated with infant and adolescent mortality

Few studies have described factors associated with infant and adolescent mortality since birth. We report here mortality during a 20-year period in a birth cohort from Ribeirão Preto in order to identify birth variables that influenced mortality among infants and children between 10 and 19 years of...

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Main Authors: Z.A.R. Oliveira, H. Bettiol, M.R.P. Gutierrez, A.A.M. Silva, M.A. Barbieri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica 2007-09-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
Subjects:
Infant mortality
Adolescence
Causes of death
External causes
Socioeconomic factors
Social inequality
20-year Brazilian cohort study
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2007000900012

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