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Urban-rural disparities in heatwave effects on under-5 mortality in China, 2009–2019: a nationwide case-crossover studyResearch in context [PDF]

The Lancet Regional Health. Western Pacific
Summary: Background: Children under five years are physiologically susceptible to heat stress and significantly more affected by their surrounding environmental conditions, yet urban-rural differences in their vulnerability remain poorly understood ...
Chunhua He, Cheng He, Renjie Chen, Leni Kang, Yuxi Liu, Xue Yu, Jun Zhu, Yanping Wang, Haidong Kan   +8 more
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Trends and Factors Associated with Under-5 Mortality in Northwest Nigeria (2008–2018) [PDF]

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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Under-5 mortality trends and leading causes of death in Greece, 2016-2020: A nationwide study [PDF]

Public Health in Practice
Objectives: To examine recent trends and cause-specific patterns of under-5 mortality in Greece and to identify demographic and regional variations using ICD-10–based national data. Study design: Nationwide population-based retrospective study.
Maria Tzoraki, Eva-Maria Igoumenidi, Georgios Naltsas, Georgia Kourlaba, Tania Siahanidou, Dimitra Metallinou   +5 more
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Gender and Economic Inequality in under-5 Mortality in India from 2000 to 2022 [PDF]

International Journal of Preventive Medicine
Background: Under-5 mortality serves as a critical indicator of the population’s overall health and effectiveness of the healthcare system. Reduction in under-5 mortality is a key global health goal, access to healthcare, nutrition, and sanitation ...
Subrat K. Pradhan, Pranati Pradhan, Udayana Nayak, Bharati Panda, Satya Swaroop Tripathy, Sanjeeb K. Mishra   +5 more
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Exploring spatiotemporal trends and impacts of health resources and services on under-5 mortality in West African countries, 2010–2019: a spatial data analysis [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundWest African countries experienced the highest under-5 mortality rate (U5MR), the lowest life expectancy, and the poorest economic development. This study aimed to explore the spatiotemporal trend of U5MR and spatial spillover effects of health
Meng Zeng, Lu Niu
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An analysis of cause-specific under-5 mortality in Bangladesh using the demographic and health survey 2011 and 2017–2018 [PDF]

BMC Pediatrics
Background As the Sustainable Development Goal 3.2.1 deadline (2030) approaches, rapidly reducing under-5 mortality (U5M) gains more prominence. However, initiatives or interventions that aided Bangladesh in achieving Millennium Development Goal 4 showed
Tapas Mazumder, Itismita Mohanty, Danish Ahmad, Theo Niyonsenga   +3 more
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Lessons from Peru to reduce under-5 mortality: understanding program implementation and context [PDF]

BMC Pediatrics
Background Health policymakers aiming to reduce under-5 mortality (U5M) often lack data regarding how successful interventions in other countries were implemented.
Patricia J. García, Anna Larson Williams, Marco H. Carcamo, Amelia VanderZanden, Agnes Binagwaho   +4 more
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Development and application of a hybrid implementation research framework to understand success in reducing under-5 mortality in Rwanda [version 3; peer review: 2 approved] [PDF]

Gates Open Research, 2021
Background: We describe the development and testing of a hybrid implementation research (IR) framework to understand the pathways, successes, and challenges in addressing amenable under-5 mortality (U5M) – deaths preventable through health system ...
Miriam Frisch, Amelia VanderZanden, Jovial Thomas Ntawukuriryayo, Kedest Mathewos, Kateri Donahoe, Agnes Binagwaho, Felix Sayinzoga, Lisa R. Hirschhorn   +7 more
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Avoidable under-5 mortality from congenital and genetic disorders: a frontier analysis of GBD 2023 identifying intervention targets [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
IntroductionGlobal under-5 mortality has fallen sharply since 1990, yet congenital and genetic disorders (ConGDs), spanning structural birth defects and inherited red-cell disorders (hemoglobinopathies and hemolytic anemias), have not previously been ...
Jingjing Ruan, Zewen Tao, Kaiye Zhang, Shaoran Wu, Ying Zhou, Xiaoxiao Yu, Hao Zhang, Guangyao Liu, Yue Zhang   +8 more
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From parental education to under-5 mortality: how antenatal care and hand hygiene mediate the pathway mechanisms [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Background Reducing the under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) to as low as 25/1000 live births globally by 2030 to reach the sustainable development goal (SDG) 3.2.1 appears to be a race against time.
Tapas Mazumder, Itismita Mohanty, Danish Ahmad, Theo Niyonsenga   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources