Improving program targeting to combat early-life mortality by identifying high-risk births: an application to India

Abstract Background It is widely recognized that there are multiple risk factors for early-life mortality. In practice most interventions to curb early-life mortality target births based on a single risk factor, such as poverty. However, most premature deaths are not from the targeted group. Thus in...

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Main Authors: Antonio P. Ramos, Robert E. Weiss, Jody S. Heymann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-08-01
Series:Population Health Metrics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12963-018-0172-6