Direct estimates of cause-specific mortality fractions and rates of under-five deaths in the northern and southern regions of Nigeria by verbal autopsy interview

Nigeria's under-five mortality rate is the eighth highest in the world. Identifying the causes of under-five deaths is crucial to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 3 by 2030 and improving child survival. National and international bodies collaborated in this study to provide the first ever...

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Published in:	PloS one Vol. 12; no. 5; p. e0178129
Main Authors:	Adewemimo, Adeyinka, Kalter, Henry D., Perin, Jamie, Koffi, Alain K., Quinley, John, Black, Robert E.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Public Library of Science 31.05.2017 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects:	Age Algorithms Analysis Asphyxia Autopsies Autopsy Biology and Life Sciences Biometrics Births Caregivers Cause of Death Child Child death Child Mortality Child, Preschool Children Children & youth Demographics Diarrhea Disease Epidemiology Estimates Fatalities Female Health aspects Households Humans Hypothesis testing Illnesses Infant Infant mortality Infant, Newborn Interviews Malaria Male Medicine and Health Sciences Meningitis Mortality Neonates Newborn babies Nigeria - epidemiology Pediatrics People and Places Planning Pneumonia Public health Registration Sepsis Studies Surveys Sustainable development Vector-borne diseases Nigeria Pakistan United States > US India
ISSN:	1932-6203, 1932-6203
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