Do precarious female employment and political autonomy affect the under-5 mortality rate? Evidence from 166 countries. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were designed to benefit the globalized world by safeguarding economic and environmental resources necessary for quality health and well-being and moderate growth and development. The study focused
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Lancet Global Health, 2022 Summary Background The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), set in 2015 by the UN General Assembly, call for all countries to reach an under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) of at least as low as 25 deaths per 1000 livebirths and a neonatal mortality rate (NMR ...
D. Sharrow +17 more
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Modeling Age Patterns of Under-5 Mortality: Results From a Log-Quadratic Model Applied to High-Quality Vital Registration Data. [PDF]
Demography, 2022 Information about how the risk of death varies with age within the 0–5 age range represents critical evidence for guiding health policy. This study proposes a new model for summarizing regularities about how under-5 mortality is distributed by detailed ...
Guillot M +3 more
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Under-5 mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: is maternal age at first childbirth below 20 years a risk factor? [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2021 Objectives This study aimed at examining the association between young maternal age at first childbirth and under-5 mortality in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Ahinkorah BO.
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Reductions in under-5 mortality and public health improvements of the China Healthy Cities (Counties) initiative: a nationwide quasi-experimental study. [PDF]
BMJ Glob Health, 2022 Introduction The China Healthy Cities (Counties) public health initiative has been at the forefront of China’s efforts to counteract the growing challenges in the urban environment since the 1990s.
Yue D, Chen X, Zhu Y, Macinko J, Meng Q.
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Development and application of a hybrid implementation research framework to understand success in reducing under-5 mortality in Rwanda. [PDF]
Gates Open Res, 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 ...
Hirschhorn LR +7 more
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Lancet Planetary Health, 2023 BACKGROUND In 2021, WHO suggested new target concentration limits for long-term exposure to ambient ozone. However, the harmful effects of ozone on vulnerable children have not been sufficiently studied.
Tao Xue +10 more
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Under-5 Mortality and Its Associated Factors in Northern Nigeria: Evidence from 22,455 Singleton Live Births (2013-2018). [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021 The northern geopolitical zones (NGZs) continue to report the highest under-5 mortality rates (U5MRs) among Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones. This study was designed to identify factors related to under-5 mortality (U5M) in the NGZs.
Ezeh OK +7 more
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PLoS ONE, 2021 Objective This study examines trends and puts forward projections of under-5 mortality (U5M) in Bangladesh and identifies the effects of maternal high-risk fertility behaviours and use of healthcare services.
Mostaured Ali Khan +6 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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