Increasing Neonatal Mortality among Palestine Refugees in the Gaza Strip.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has periodically estimated infant mortality rates among Palestine refugees in Gaza. These surveys have recorded a decline from 127 per 1000 live births in 1960 to 20.2 in 2008.We used the same preceding-birth...

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Main Authors: Maartje M van den Berg, Haifa H Madi, Ali Khader, Majed Hababeh, Wafa'a Zeidan, Hannah Wesley, Mariam Abd El-Kader, Mohamed Maqadma, Akihiro Seita
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4524592?pdf=render