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Relationship Between Household Socio-Economic Status and under-five Mortality in Rufiji DSS, Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2013
Disparities in health outcomes between the poor and the better off are increasingly attracting attention from researchers and policy makers. However, policies aimed at reducing inequity need to be based on evidence of their nature, magnitude, and ...
Honorati Masanja, Cornelius Nattey, Masanja, Honorati, Klipstein-Grobusch, Kerstin, Nattey, Cornelius, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch   +5 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, Kunst, A, Moser, K, Mackenbach, J   +3 more
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Mortality inequalities in times of economic growth: time-trends in socio-economic and regional inequalities in under-5 mortality in Indonesia, 1982-1997 [PDF]

, 2006
Study objective: To examine time trends in socioeconomic and regional inequalities in under 5 mortality in Indonesia during almost two decades of economic growth.
Houweling, A.J. (Tanja), Houweling, AJ, Kunst, A.E. (Anton), Mackenbach, Johan, Borsboom, Gerard, Houweling, Tanja, Kunst, AE, Houweling, Tanja A. J., Mackenbach, JP, Borsboom, G.J.J.M. (Gerard), Borsboom, G, Kunst, Anton E., Mackenbach, Johan P., Kunst, Anton, Houweling, Tanja; id_orcid, Mackenbach, J.P. (Johan)   +15 more
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Prevalence of and factors associated with under-5 mortality in South Asia [PDF]

International Health, 2018
This study investigated the prevalence of and the factors associated with under-5 mortality across five South Asian countries.Cross-sectional pooled data from 1999 through 2014 collected from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) in five South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal and Pakistan) were used.
Hasan Sohail, Subas Neupane
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Substantial and sustained reduction in under-5 mortality, diarrhea, and pneumonia in Oshikhandass, Pakistan: evidence from two longitudinal cohort studies 15 years apart

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, B. J. J. McCormick, S. I. Azam, K. Ahmed, J. M. Baker, E. Hussain, A. Jahan, A. F. Jamison, S. L. Knobler, N. Samji, W. H. Shah, D. J. Spiro, E. D. Thomas, C. Viboud, Z. A. Rasmussen, for the Oshikhandass Diarrhea and Pneumonia Project   +15 more
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Intrinsic religiosity reduces intergroup hostility under mortality salience [PDF]

, 2012
Results of three studies indicate that intrinsic religiosity and mortality salience interact to predict intergroup hostility. Study 1,conducted among 200 American Christians and Jews, reveals that under mortality salience, intrinsic (but not extrinsic or
Abdollahi, Abdolhossein, Orehek, Edward, Cichocka, Aleksandra, De Zavala, Agnieszka Golec, Golec de Zavala, Agnieszka   +4 more
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Global, regional, national, and selected subnational levels of stillbirths, neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

, 2016
Background: Established in 2000, Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG4) catalysed extraordinary political, financial, and social commitments to reduce under-5 mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015.
GBD 2015 Child Mortality Collaborators (13572898), Ted Miller (6196301)   +1 more
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The impact of democracy and media freedom on under-5 mortality, 1961–2011 [PDF]

Social Science & Medicine, 2017
Do democracies produce better health outcomes for children than autocracies? We argue that (1) democratic governments have an incentive to reduce child mortality among low-income families and (2) that media freedom enhances their ability to deliver mortality-reducing resources to the poorest.
Simon Wigley, Arzu Akkoyunlu-Wigley
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An Account of India's under-5 Mortality Rate [PDF]

International Journal of Social Work and Human Services Practice, 2016
Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG4) of India targeted to diminish the under-five mortality rate (U-5MR) rate to 42 and infant mortality rate (IMR) to 27 per 1,000 live births by 2015-end. Although the country has gained some improvements in reducing U-5MR and IMR, it failed to achieve the target.
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Neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality and morbidity burden in the Eastern Mediterranean region : findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study

, 2018
OBJECTIVES: Although substantial reductions in under-5 mortality have been observed during the past 35 years, progress in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) has been uneven.
Ahmad Kiadaliri, Aliasghar, GBD 2015 Eastern Mediterranean Region Neonatal, Infant, and under-5 Mortality Collaborators, Mokdad, Ali H.   +2 more
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