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The effect of distance to formal health facility on childhood mortality in rural Tanzania, 2005–2007 [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2012 Background: Major improvements are required in the coverage and quality of essential childhood interventions to achieve Millennium Development Goal Four (MDG 4). Long distance to health facilities is one of the known barriers to access.
Daniel Kadobera +4 more
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Mortality Risks and Child Labor [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2005 In this paper, we investigate the role of young adult mortality on child labor and educational decisions. We show that, in the absence of appropriate insurance mechanisms, the level of child labor is inefficient. It may be too high if parents are not very altruistic and anticipate positive transfers from their children in the future, but it can also be
ESTEVAN, Fernanda, BALAND, Jean-Marie
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Health Economics, 2023 AbstractHow does terrorism affect child mortality? We use geo‐coded data on terrorism and spatially disaggregated data on child mortality to study the relationship between both variables for 52 African countries between 2000 and 2017 at the 0.5 × 0.5° grid level.
Daniel Meierrieks, Max Schaub
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Past and projected climate change impacts on heat-related child mortality in Africa
Environmental Research Letters, 2022 Children (
S. Chapman +9 more
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Journal of Global Health, 2022 Methods Eight databases, PubMed, CINAHL, Web of Science, Embase, PsycINFO, Cochrane Library, Popline, and Maternity and Infant Care, were searched, covering the period of January 2000 to January 2022. Studies that had examined the association between SBI
M. Z. Islam +4 more
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Child mortality estimation 2013: an overview of updates in estimation methods by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 In September 2013, the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) published an update of the estimates of the under-five mortality rate (U5MR) and under-five deaths for all countries.
Leontine Alkema +5 more
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Reduction in child mortality in Niger [PDF]
The Lancet, 2013 www.thelancet.com Vol 381 January 5, 2013 25 access to curative services. Page and colleagues report that 40% of care for children had been provided by CHWs in 2009. In Niger, there is an even more peripheral level of relais communautaire. Further evidence of the role lay health workers can have in resource-constrained settings, especially the ...
David Sanders +6 more
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Factors associated with delays in the search for care in under-5 deaths in Yucatán, Mexico
Salud Pública de México, 2021 Objective. We examined delays during the search for care and associations with mother, child, or health services characteristics, and with symptoms reported prior to death. Materials and methods.
Bernardo Hernández-Prado +12 more
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Risk factors of child mortality in Ethiopia: Application of multilevel two-part model
PLoS ONE, 2020 The child mortality rate is an essential measurement of socioeconomic growth and the quality of life in Ethiopia which is one among the six countries that account for half of the global under-five deaths.
Setegn Muche Fenta, H. Fenta
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