Saturday, March 26, 2005

WHO estimates of the causes of death in children

The Journal : Current Issue
Jennifer Bryce, Cynthia Boschi-Pinto, Kenji Shibuya, Robert E Black, and the WHO Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group
Interpretation: Achievement of the millennium development goal of reducing child mortality by two-thirds from the 1990 rate will depend on renewed efforts to prevent and control pneumonia, diarrhoea, and undernutrition in all WHO regions, and malaria in the Africa region. In all regions, deaths in the neonatal period, primarily due to preterm delivery, sepsis or pneumonia, and birth asphyxia should also be addressed. These estimates of the causes of child deaths should be used to guide public-health policies and programmes

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