Child Mortality Estimation: Estimating Sex Differences in Childhood Mortality since the 1970s
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Child Mortality Estimation: Estimating Sex Differences in Childhood Mortality since the 1970s
INTRODUCTION Producing estimates of infant (under age 1 y), child (age 1-4 y), and under-five (under age 5 y) mortality rates disaggregated by sex is complicated by problems with data quality and availability. Interpretation of sex differences requires nuanced analysis: girls have a biological advantage against many causes of death that may be eroded if they are disadvantaged in access to resou...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Medicine
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1549-1676
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001287