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Environment International, 2022 Background: Under-5 mortality rate is an important indicator in Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals. To date, no nationally representative studies have examined the effects of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution on ...
Chunhua He +13 more
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Temporal trends and inequality in under-5 mortality from diarrhea [PDF]
Jornal de Pediatria, 2009 To analyze the trend in mortality due to diarrhea among children under 5 in the town of Osasco (SP), Brazil, between 1980 and 2000.This is a descriptive observational study with two different designs, the first using individuals as the unit of study, and the other ecological, using groups of individuals as units of observation and including time series
Lígia C F L, Melli, Eliseu A, Waldman
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Trends in mortality and life expectancy in Fiji over 20 years
BMC Public Health, 2021 Background Fiji, a Pacific Island nation of 884,887 (2017 census), has experienced a prolonged epidemiological transition. This study examines trends in mortality and life expectancy (LE) in Fiji by sex and ethnicity over 1996–2017, with comparisons to ...
Catherine Dearie +5 more
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Jurnal Administrasi Kesehatan Indonesia, 2022 Background: Although it has been globally reported that IMR and U5MR continue to decline every year, the rate disparities between urban and rural areas are still evident in various countries. The government is presumed to carry out efforts to reduce this
Alissa Sita Pertiwi, Amal Chalik Sjaaf
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Acute Malnutrition and Under-5 Mortality, Northeastern Part of India [PDF]
Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, 2010 We assessed the prevalence of childhood acute malnutrition and under-five mortality rate (U5MR) in Darbhanga district, India, using a two-stage 49-cluster household survey. A total of 1379 households comprising 8473 people were interviewed. During a 90-day recall period, U5MR was 0.5 [95% confidence interval (CI), 0.2-1.4] per 10,000 per day.
Emmanuelle, Espié +5 more
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Determinants of under-5 mortality in Burkina Faso
Journal of Public Health, 2018 Abstract Background The aim of this article is to determine the factors associated with under-5 mortality and their evolution from 1993 to 2010 and to analyse the contributors of socioeconomic inequalities in mortality of children under-5 years during the same period.
Aristide Romaric, Bado +1 more
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Rising under‐5 mortality in Africa: who bears the brunt? [PDF]
Tropical Medicine & International Health, 2006 SummaryObjectives To identify the socioeconomic and geographical groups in which the recent under‐5 mortality increase observed in several African countries was most pronounced, and to explore the contribution of a number of proximate determinants of under‐5 mortality.Methods Time trends in under‐5 mortality were assessed with Cox Proportional ...
Houweling, T +3 more
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BMC Public Health, 2020 Background Oshikhandass is a rural village in northern Pakistan where a 1989–1991 verbal autopsy study showed that diarrhea and pneumonia were the top causes of under-5 mortality. Intensive surveillance, active community health education and child health
C. L. Hansen +15 more
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Estimation of Under-5 Child Mortality Rates in 52 Low-migration Countries [PDF]
Child Health Nursing Research, 2020 Reduction of the under-5 mortality rate is a target of the Sustainable Development Goals. Therefore, this study aimed to estimate under-5 child mortality rates in 52 low-migration countries using population data. The study utilized population data from the US Census Bureau from 1990 to 2015.
Nirmal Sapkota +3 more
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Global Health Action, 2019 Background: Despite global achievements in reducing early childhood mortality, disparities remain. There have been empirical studies of inequalities conducted in low- and middle-income countries.
Sai San Moon Lu +2 more
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