Infant and under-five mortality in Afghanistan: current estimates and limitations

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: Indire...

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Main Authors: Kavitha Viswanathan, Stan Becker, Peter M Hansen, Dhirendra Kumar, Binay Kumar, Haseebullah Niayesh, David H Peters, Gilbert Burnham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2010-08-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862010000800009&lng=en&tlng=en

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