Socioeconomic inequality in infant mortality in Iran and across its provinces.
OBJECTIVE: To measure the socioeconomic inequality in infant mortality in Iran (the Islamic Republic of Iran). METHODS: We analysed data from the provincially representative Demographic and Health Survey, which was done in Iran in 2000. We used a dichotomous hierarchical ordered probit model to deve...
| Publicado en: | Bulletin of the World Health Organization Vol. 83; no. 11; pp. 837 - 845 |
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World Health Organization
Nov2005
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