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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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BMC Pediatrics, 2022 Background Child mortality is an important social indicator that describes the health conditions of a country as well as determines the country’s overall socio-economic development. The Government of Pakistan has been struggling to reduce child mortality
Muhammad Farhan Asif +5 more
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Children, 2023 There is widespread agreement that improved health should be regarded as a means and an end in the context of the development process. The health of the populace and the equitable provision of healthcare are two indicators of a society’s level of ...
Muhammad Farhan Asif +5 more
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On Hunger and Child Mortality in India [PDF]
Journal of Asian and African Studies, 2011 Despite accelerated growth there is pervasive hunger, child undernutrition and mortality in India. Our analysis focuses on their determinants. Raising living standards alone will not reduce hunger and undernutrition. Reduction of rural/urban disparities, income inequality, consumer price stabilization, and mothers’ literacy all have roles of varying ...
Raghav Gaiha +3 more
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Demographic Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]
Ученые записки Института Африки Российской академии наук, 2019 The demographic transition is a global phenomenon but sub-Saharan Africa is several decades late. The quantitative characteristics of the region are well known, but they are insufficient to explain the lags even though sub-Saharan Africa is rightly taken
IVANOV Sergey Felixovich
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Characterization of Innovation to Fight Child Mortality: A Systematic Scoping Review
International Journal of Public Health, 2022 Objectives: This study aims to summarize how child mortality—a Sustainable Development Goal stated by the United Nations—has been explicitly addressed in the context of innovations.Methods: A scoping review following the PRISMA-ScR Statement was ...
Bruno Filipe Coelho Da Costa +5 more
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Child mortality estimation: accelerated progress in reducing global child mortality, 1990-2010.
PLoS Medicine, 2012 Monitoring development indicators has become a central interest of international agencies and countries for tracking progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.
Kenneth Hill +4 more
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Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2022 In this paper we describe how the innovative technique of minimally invasive tissue sampling (MITS) and the researchers associated with it came to represent the fears, anger, and suspicions of a community in Eastern Ethiopia.
Caroline Ackley +5 more
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