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Malaria ecology, child mortality & fertility. [PDF]

Economics and Human Biology, 2017
The broad determinants of fertility are thought to be reasonably well identified by demographers, though the detailed quantitative drivers of fertility levels and changes are less well understood.
Conley, Dalton, McCord, Gordon C, Sachs, Jeffrey D +2 more
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Global, regional, and national trends in under-5 mortality between 1990 and 2019 with scenario-based projections until 2030: a systematic analysis by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation

Lancet Global Health, 2022
Summary Background The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), set in 2015 by the UN General Assembly, call for all countries to reach an under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) of at least as low as 25 deaths per 1000 livebirths and a neonatal mortality rate (NMR ...
D. Sharrow +17 more
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Infant & Child Mortality in Pakistan and its Determinants: A Review

Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing, 2023
Over the years, several developing countries have been suffering from high infant and child mortality rates, however, according to the recent statistics, Pakistan falls high on the list.
Z. H. Tharwani +9 more
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Parental education and inequalities in child mortality: a global systematic review and meta-analysis

The Lancet, 2021
Summary Background The educational attainment of parents, particularly mothers, has been associated with lower levels of child mortality, yet there is no consensus on the magnitude of this relationship globally.
M. Balaj +18 more
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Healthcare utilization and maternal and child mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in 18 low- and middle-income countries: An interrupted time-series analysis with mathematical modeling of administrative data

PLoS Medicine, 2022
Background The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had wide-reaching direct and indirect impacts on population health. In low- and middle-income countries, these impacts can halt progress toward reducing maternal and child mortality.
T. Ahmed +31 more
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Past and projected climate change impacts on heat-related child mortality in Africa

Environmental Research Letters, 2022
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S. Chapman +9 more
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Socio-economic factors affecting high infant and child mortality rates in selected African countries: does globalisation play any role?

Globalization and Health, 2022
Background Despite the declining trends worldwide, infant and child mortality rates are still high in many African countries. These high rates are problematic; therefore, this study attempts to explore the contributing factors that cause high infant and ...
M. Rahman, Khosrul Alam, R. Khanam
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Global, regional, and national progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 for neonatal and child health: all-cause and cause-specific mortality findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.

The Lancet, 2021
BACKGROUND Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 has targeted elimination of preventable child mortality, reduction of neonatal death to less than 12 per 1000 livebirths, and reduction of death of children younger than 5 years to less than 25 per 1000 ...
K. Paulson +499 more
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Early estimates of the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and child mortality in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study

Lancet Global Health, 2020
Summary Background While the COVID-19 pandemic will increase mortality due to the virus, it is also likely to increase mortality indirectly. In this study, we estimate the additional maternal and under-5 child deaths resulting from the potential ...
T. Roberton +7 more
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Initial findings from a novel population-based child mortality surveillance approach: a descriptive study

Lancet Global Health, 2020
Summary Background Sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia contributed 81% of 5·9 million under-5 deaths and 77% of 2·6 million stillbirths worldwide in 2015.
Allan W. Taylor +87 more
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