Infant maltreatment-related mortality in Alaska: correcting the count and using birth certificates to predict mortality.

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Alaska Division of Public Health, Section of Women's Children's and Family Health, Unit of Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology, Anchorage, AK, USA.

Published: December 2010

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