Infant Mortality in the 20th Century, Dramatic but Uneven Progress
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Infant mortality in the 20th century, dramatic but uneven progress.
It is quite fitting for a symposium reviewing progress in infant nutrition in the 20th century to start with a review of infant mortality rates during that time period. Indeed, it has been a truism in public health that, within limits, the infant mortality rate of any community, large or small, reflected its general state of health better than any other single indicator. Although no longer vali...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Nutrition
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0022-3166,1541-6100
DOI: 10.1093/jn/131.2.401s