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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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Child mortality and water stress under the framework of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Evidence from twenty developing countries

Present Environment and Sustainable Development, 2021
Both child mortality and water stress are included into the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Existing studies have explored the relationship between child mortality and water stress with different perspectives, however, the results vary due to ...
Suyu Liu
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Child Health and Mortality

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2009
Bangladesh is currently one of the very few countries in the world, which is on target for achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 relating to child mortality. There have been very rapid reductions in mortality, especially in recent years and among children aged over one month.
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Child mortality estimation: appropriate time periods for child mortality estimates from full birth histories.

PLoS Medicine, 2012
BackgroundChild mortality estimates from complete birth histories from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) surveys and similar surveys are a chief source of data used to track Millennium Development Goal 4, which aims for a reduction of under-five ...
Jon Pedersen, Jing Liu
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