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Annals of Tropical Paediatrics
International Child Health
Volume 14, 1994 - Issue 3
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The Butajira Rural Health Project in Ethiopia: a nested case-referent (control) study of under-5 mortality and its health and behavioural determinants

Desta ShameboDepartments of Community HealthAddis A baba University, Ethiopia
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Lulu MuheDepartments of Paediatrics, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
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Anita SandströmDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, Umeå University, Stockholm, Sweden
,
Lennart FreijDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Gothenburg, Stockholm, Sweden
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Ingela KrantzDepartment of International Health Care Research, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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Stig WallDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, Umeå University, Stockholm, Sweden
Pages 201-209 | Received 07 Sep 1993, Published online: 13 Jul 2016

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