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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.
openaire   +3 more sources

Risk factors associated with high infant and child mortality in Lesotho [PDF]

, 2011
This study uses the 2004 and 2009 Lesotho Demographic and Health Surveys (LDHS) to: 1) identify the risk factors that affect mortality at neonatal, post-neonatal, and child ages, and, specifically, to determine the effect of mother’s HIV status on child ...
Mokoena, Mathabang P
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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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Profile of mothers whose children are treated for malnutrition at a rural district hospital in the North West province, South Africa

The South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2022
Objective: This study profiled mothers whose children were admitted to hospital for malnutrition in a rural hospital in the North West province. Method: A quantitative and cross-sectional design, using a researcher-developed questionnaire, was used to ...
Kebogile Mokwena, Jim Kachabe
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Understanding the wider determinants of child road fatalities in England and opportunities for prevention: protocol for a mixed-methods study of the national child mortality database

BMJ Open
Introduction In Great Britain, an estimated 4% of road deaths occur among children under 16 years-old. Previous research has often focused on individual-level risk factors, with less attention to the broader social, environmental and system-level ...
Julie Mytton, Karen Luyt, Elizabeth Orton, David Odd, Emma L Bird, Nicola Christie, Sylvia Stoianova, Sarah E O’Toole, Erdem Dikici, Pallavi Govind   +9 more
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Infant Embryonal CNS Tumors: Molecular Insights and Treatment Considerations for Contemporary Pediatric Neuro‐Oncology

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Embryonal tumors comprise the majority of malignant central nervous system (CNS) neoplasms diagnosed in children under 3 years of age. Compared with their counterparts in older children, these tumors exhibit distinct molecular biology and a more aggressive clinical phenotype, while their management is complicated by the heightened ...
Sudarshawn Damodharan, Mariah Wright‐Nadkarni, Mohamed S. Abdelbaki, Girish Dhall   +3 more
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Cause-specific child mortality performance and contributions to all-cause child mortality, and number of child lives saved during the Millennium Development Goals era: a country-level analysis

Global Health Action, 2018
Background: During the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) era, impressive reductions in the under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) have been observed, although the MDG 4 target was not met.
Yan Jin, Paul Mansiangi Mankadi, Jose Irineu Rigotti, Seungman Cha   +3 more
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Safety and Effectiveness of a High‐Dose, Tailored Tissue Plasminogen Activator Therapy Protocol: A Joint Pediatric Hematology and Cardiac ICU Quality Improvement Initiative Analysis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric thromboembolism is increasingly encountered in critical care. Systemic thrombolysis with tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) facilitates vessel or valve patency, yet pediatric‐specific protocols remain undefined, and safety concerns persist. Objective To evaluate the efficacy and safety of a tailored, prolonged systemic tPA
Eran Shostak, Oded Gilad, Yael Feinstein, Sigal Nakav, Ofer Schiller, Joanne Yacobovich   +5 more
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Spatiotemporal trends in neonatal, infant, and child mortality (1990–2019) based on Bayesian spatiotemporal modeling

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundNeonatal mortality rate (NMR), infant mortality rate (IMR), and child mortality rate (CMR) show a huge difference across countries, which has been posing challenges for public health policies and medical resource allocation.MethodsBayesian ...
Shaobin Wang, Zhoupeng Ren, Zhoupeng Ren, Xianglong Liu, Xianglong Liu   +4 more
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