Estimating the causes of 4 million neonatal deaths in the year 2000

E Lawn, Joy; Wilczynska-Ketende, Katarzyna; Cousens, Simon

doi:10.1093/ije/dyl043

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Estimating the causes of 4 million neonatal deaths in the year 2000

Published in International Journal of Epidemiology • Mar 23, 2006

Authors:

Joy E Lawn

Katarzyna Wilczynska-Ketende

Simon Cousens

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Information on cause-of-death is lacking for 98% of the world's 4 million neonatal deaths that occur in countries with inadequate vital registration (VR). Our aim was to estimate, by country for the year 2000, the distribution of neonatal deaths across programme-relevant causes including...

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Medicine

Demography

Environmental health

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