Determinants of early neonatal mortality in Afghanistan: an analysis of the Demographic and Health Survey 2015

• Main Authors: Gulam Muhammed Al Kibria (Author), Vanessa Burrowes (Author), Allysha Choudhury (Author), Atia Sharmeen (Author), Swagata Ghosh (Author), Arif Mahmud (Author), Angela KC (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Neonatal mortality is declining slowly compared to under-five mortality in many developing countries including Afghanistan. About three-fourths of these deaths occur in the early neonatal period (i.e., the first week of life). Although a number of studies investigated determinant...