Infant and under-five mortality in Afghanistan: current estimates and limitations
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Infant and under-five mortality in Afghanistan: current estimates and limitations.
OBJECTIVE To examine historical estimates of infant and under-five mortality in Afghanistan, provide estimates for rural areas from current population-based data, and discuss the methodological challenges that undermine data quality and hinder retrospective estimations of mortality. METHODS Indirect methods of estimation were used to calculate infant and under-five mortality from a household ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the World Health Organization
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0042-9686
DOI: 10.2471/blt.09.068957