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Prioritizing Health Care Strategies to Reduce Childhood Mortality [PDF]

, 2022
IMPORTANCE: Although child mortality trends have decreased worldwide, deaths among children younger than 5 years of age remain high and disproportionately circumscribed to sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia.
Sesay, Tom, Fritz, Ashleigh, Mandomando, Inacio, Igunza, Kitiezo Aggrey, Swaray-Deen, Alim, Scott, J. Anthony G., Tapia, Milagritos D., Rees, Chris A, Ajanovic, Sara, Whitney, Cynthia G., Gurley, Emily S., Kotloff, Karen L, Xerinda, Elisio G, Mehta, Ashka, Keita, Adama M., Mutevedzi, Portia, Blau, Dianna M, Whitney, Cynthia G, Kelil, Yunus-Edris, Blau, Dianna M., Dufera, Tadesse, Assefa, Nega, Mannah, Margaret T., Ogbuanu, Ikechukwu U, Kotloff, Karen L., Seib, Katherine, Madhi, Shabir A, Tippett Barr, Beth A, Xerinda, Elisio G., Ogbuanu, Ikechukwu U., Madewell, Zachary J., Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance Network, Mahtab, Sana, Gurley, Emily S, Tippett Barr, Beth A., El Arifeen, Shams, Spotts Whitney, Ellen A, Madhi, Shabir A., Sow, Samba O., Madewell, Zachary J, Akelo, Victor, Tapia, Milagritos D, Onyango, Dickens, Agaya, Janet, Keita, Adama M, Spotts Whitney, Ellen A., Bassat, Quique, Madrid, Lola, Scott, J Anthony G, Velaphi, Sithembiso, Mannah, Margaret T, Sitoe, Antonio, Sow, Samba O, Rees, Chris A., Oele, Elizabeth   +54 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, Danzhen You, Mie Inoue, Mikkel Z Oestergaard, Technical Advisory Group of United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation   +4 more
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Things That Take from People’s Bodies: Rumours about Minimally Invasive Tissue Sampling and Evil Spirits in Ethiopia

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, Ketema Degefa, Eyoel Taye, Nega Assefa, Mohamed Aliyi, Getahun Wakwaya   +5 more
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Trends and Factors Associated with Under-5 Mortality in Northwest Nigeria (2008–2018)

Annals of Global Health, 2022
Background: The Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) revealed that the under-five mortality rate (U5MR) in the northwest geopolitical zone (NWGZ), Nigeria, increased by 1.1% from 185 to 187 deaths per 1,000 live births between 2013 and 2018 ...
Osita K. Ezeh, Anastasia O. Odumegwu, Gladys H. Oforkansi, Uchechukwu D. Abada, Felix A. Ogbo, Piwuna C. Goson, Tanko Ishaya, Kingsley E. Agho   +7 more
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STUDY OF MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY OF CHILDREN UNDER 5 YEARS OF AGE IN BEHBAHAN CITY, IRAN [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Public Health, 1995
In a survey of the Population of Behbahan city, carried out in years 1990-91, the mean age was approximated up to 15.2 and 17.5 in the villages and the city, respectively.
B. Nikpour
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Indigenous women’s reproductive health in the Arctic zone of Western Siberia: challenges and solutions

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2021
In the Russian Arctic, alarming trends (shortage of nomadic Indigenous women, high reproductive loss, child mortality rates) indicate long-term changes towards demographic decline. This study aimed at comparing some indicators of the reproductive health (
Elena Bogdanova, Sergei Andronov, Andrey Lobanov, Ruslan Kochkin, Andrei Popov, Ildiko Asztalos Morell, JonØyvind Odland   +6 more
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Childhood violence across distinct, overlapping, and concurrent contexts: polyvictimization, polyperpetration, and missed interventions points among child knife crime fatalities in England

Frontiers in Sociology
IntroductionThis study examines casefiles of children in England who were fatally stabbed between 2019 and 2024, focusing on their prior experiences of violence and adversity, aiming to identify missed opportunities for earlier intervention.MethodsWe ...
Jade Levell, Tom Roberts, Jo Staines, Vicky Sleap, Sylvia Stoianova, Edward Carlton, Karen Luyt   +6 more
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Quality of Sick Child-Care Delivered by Community Health Workers in Tanzania [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2018
Background Community health worker (CHW) interventions to manage childhood illness is a strategy promoted by the global health community which involves training and supporting CHW to assess, classify and treat sick children at home, using an algorithm ...
Colin Baynes, Dominic Mboya, Samuel Likasi, Doroth Maganga, Senga Pemba, Jitihada Baraka, Kate Ramsey, Helen Semu   +7 more
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Changes in child suicide rates and characteristics during the COVID-19 pandemic in England

Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
IntroductionSuicide in young people has risen in many countries over the last 10 years.AimThe aim of this study was to report any changes, and characteristics of children dying by suicide in England, before, and during the COVID pandemic.MethodsChild ...
David Odd, David Odd, Duleeka Knipe, Tom Williams, Sylvia Stoianova, Prathiba Chitsabesan, Karen Luyt   +6 more
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Determinants and Consequences of Population Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

Ученые записки Института Африки Российской академии наук, 2020
During the universal demographic transition, the traditional type of population reproduction, characterized by high mortality and high fertility, is transformed into a type of reproduction in which both components are at a low level.
IVANOV Sergey Felixovich
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