Child Mortality Estimation: Appropriate Time Periods for Child Mortality Estimates from Full Birth Histories
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Child Mortality Estimation: Appropriate Time Periods for Child Mortality Estimates from Full Birth Histories
BACKGROUND Child mortality estimates from complete birth histories from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) surveys and similar surveys are a chief source of data used to track Millennium Development Goal 4, which aims for a reduction of under-five mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015. Based on the expected sample sizes when the DHS program commenced, the estimates are usually based o...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Medicine
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1549-1676
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001289