Temperature extremes and infant mortality in Bangladesh: Hotter months, lower mortality
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Temperature extremes and infant mortality in Bangladesh: Hotter months, lower mortality
BACKGROUND Our study aims to obtain estimates of the size effects of temperature extremes on infant mortality in Bangladesh using monthly time series data. METHODS Data on temperature, child and infant mortality were obtained for Matlab district of rural Bangladesh for January 1982 to December 2008 encompassing 49,426 infant deaths. To investigate the relationship between mortality and temper...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS ONE
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0189252