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Editorial
. 2024;121(2):137-140.
doi: 10.1159/000535401. Epub 2023 Dec 12.

Newborns and Children in War and Terror

Ola Didrik Saugstad  1 , Neena Modi  2 , Corrado Moretti  3 , Michael Obladen  4 , Maximo Vento  5 , Christian P Speer  6
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Newborns and Children in War and Terror

Ola Didrik Saugstad et al. Neonatology. 2024.
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Conflict of interest statement

The authors do not have any conflicts of interest to declare.

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Fig. 1.
Neonatal mortality from 1990 to 2020 globally and in some selected countries exposed to war and terror (data from reference [11]).
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Fig. 2.
Child mortality <5 years of age, globally and in Syria and Yemen between year 2000 and 2020. Syrian civil war peaked between 2011 and 2017. Yemen civil war started in 2015 and is ongoing (data from reference [11]).
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