Development and validation of a new method for indirect estimation of neonatal, infant, and child mortality trends using summary birth histories.

<h4>Background</h4>The addition of neonatal (NN) mortality targets in the Sustainable Development Goals highlights the increased need for age-specific quantification of mortality trends, detail that is not provided by summary birth histories (SBHs). Several methods exist to indirectly es...

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Main Authors: Roy Burstein, Haidong Wang, Robert C Reiner, Simon I Hay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-10-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002687