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Urban Area Disadvantage and Under-5 Mortality in Nigeria: The Effect of Rapid Urbanization
Environmental Health Perspectives, 2010 Living in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas is associated with increased -childhood mortality risks. As city living becomes the predominant social context in low- and middle-income countries, the resulting rapid urbanization together with the poor economic circumstances of these countries greatly increases the risks of mortality for children < 5 ...
Diddy Antai, Tahereh Moradi
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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 ...
Wilton Pérez +6 more
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Estimated impact of the 2020 economic downturn on under-5 mortality for 129 countries. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), economic downturns can lead to increased child mortality by affecting dietary, environmental, and care-seeking factors. This study estimates the potential loss of life in children under five years old attributable to economic downturns in 2020.
Cardona M +4 more
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Retraction: Do precarious female employment and political autonomy affect the under-5 mortality rate? Evidence from 166 countries. [PDF]
PLoS OnePLOS ONE Editors.
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The effects of Ghana's capitation policy on hospital Under-5 mortality in the Ashanti Region. [PDF]
Ghana Med J, 2022 Objective: The study estimated the capitation policy’s effect on the under-5 mortality (U5MR) rate in hospitals in Ashanti Region.Design: We used an interrupted time series design to estimate the impact from secondary data obtained from the DHIMS-2 database.
Yambah JK, Kuunibe N, Atinga RA, Laar K.
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An explanation of the stagnant under-5 mortality rate in Bangladesh using multilevel, multivariable analysis of three Demographic and Health Surveys. [PDF]
Sci RepMazumder T +3 more
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Accelerated progress to reduce under-5 mortality in India
The Lancet Global Health, 2013 Maharaj Kishan Bhan
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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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BMC Health Services Research, 2023 Introduction An Integrated Community treatment of Childhood disease (ICCM)- focused intervention involving a large number of Patent and proprietary medicine vendors (PPMVs) was conducted by Society for Family Health Nigeria to improve management of ...
Akpu Blessing Oko +6 more
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