Under-5 mortality in Tanzania: a demographic scenario. [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2012 The government of the United Republic of Tanzania has initiated the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness program to improve the health and wellbeing of children.Tanzania's under-five mortality rate is still 1.7 times higher than the world average ...
A Sathiya Susuman, Hamisi F Hamisi
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Explaining the Correlates of Child Mortality and Under-5 Survival in Nigeria
Medical and Health Science JournalBackground: Survival of children under-5 is among the foremost public health concerns that has been pursued in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Thonaeng Charity Molelekoa +1 more
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Spatial association and modelling of under-5 mortality in Thailand, 2020
Geospatial Health, 2023 Under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) is a key indicator of child health and overall development. In Thailand, despite significant steps made in child health, disparities in U5MR persist across different provinces.
Suparerk Suerungruang +3 more
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Maintaining Delivery of Evidence-Based Interventions to Reduce Under-5 Mortality During COVID-19 in Rwanda: Lessons Learned through Implementation Research [PDF]
Annals of Global HealthBackground: The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in drops in access to and availability of a number of evidence-based interventions (EBIs) known to reduce under-5 mortality (U5M) across a wide range of countries, including Rwanda.
Alemayehu Amberbir +6 more
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Understanding rapid implementation from discovery to scale: Rwanda’s implementation of rotavirus vaccines and PMTCT in the quest to reduce under-5 mortality [PDF]
BMC PediatricsBackground Over the last eight decades, many evidence-based interventions (EBIs) have been developed to reduce amenable under-5 mortality (U5M). Implementation research can help reduce the lag between discovery and delivery, including as new EBIs emerge,
Felix Sayinzoga +5 more
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Global, regional, and national under-5 mortality, adult mortality, age-specific mortality, and life expectancy, 1970-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 [PDF]
, 2017 BACKGROUND: Detailed assessments of mortality patterns, particularly age-specific mortality, represent a crucial input that enables health systems to target interventions to specific populations.
GBD 2016 Mortality Collaborators, .
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Global, regional, and national progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 for neonatal and child health: all-cause and cause-specific mortality findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. [PDF]
, 2021 BACKGROUND Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 has targeted elimination of preventable child mortality, reduction of neonatal death to less than 12 per 1000 livebirths, and reduction of death of children younger than 5 years to less than 25 per 1000 ...
GBD 2019 Under-5, Mortality Collaborators
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Under-5 Mortality in Central America: 1990–2016 [PDF]
Pediatrics, 2021 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: We aimed to calculate the change in under-5 mortality rates (U5MRs) (1990–2016), to assess countries’ status regarding Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.2.1 (reducing the U5MR to ≤25 deaths per 1000 live births by 2030), to list the ...
Franz, Castro +6 more
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Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022 BackgroundThe reduction of childhood mortality is a reliable indicator of a national health system's progress and improvement. Sudan's population is still suffering from communicable diseases, with a considerably higher mortality rate among children ...
Mohammed Ahmed A. Ahmed +5 more
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Mortality in Tonga over three triennia, 2010–2018
BMC Public Health, 2021 Background Tonga is a South Pacific Island country with a population of 100,651 (2016 Census). This study examines Tongan infant mortality rates (IMR), under-five mortality rates (U5MR), adult mortality and life expectancy (LE) at birth from 2010 to 2018
Carah Figueroa +6 more
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