Infant Mortality: A Leading Health Indicator
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Infant mortality rate as an indicator of population health.
BACKGROUND The infant mortality rate (IMR) has been criticised as a measure of population health because it is narrowly based and likely to focus the attention of health policy on a small part of the population to the exclusion of the rest. More comprehensive measures such as disability adjusted life expectancy (DALE) have come into favour as alternatives. These more comprehensive measures of p...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Bioprocessing & Biotechniques
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2155-9821
DOI: 10.4172/2155-9821.1000291