Maternal Tetanus Toxoid Vaccination and Neonatal Mortality in Rural North India
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Maternal Tetanus Toxoid Vaccination and Neonatal Mortality in Rural North India
OBJECTIVES Preventable neonatal mortality due to tetanus infection remains common. We aimed to examine antenatal vaccination impact in a context of continuing high neonatal mortality in rural northern India. METHODS AND FINDINGS Using the third round of the Indian National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 2005-06, mortality of most recent singleton births was analysed in discrete-time logistic mod...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048891