Evaluating child survival programmes

Evaluating child survival programmes.

a Department of Social Medicine, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil. b Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America. Correspondence to Cesar G Victora (e-mail: [email protected]). Renewed global interest in newborn and child survival has generated many programmes in lowand middle-income countries. There is an urgent need fo...

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Potential uses of cost analyses in child survival programmes: evidence from Africa

How can analyses of costs and cost-effectiveness help international health care specialists to monitor service delivery, evaluate activities, plan for improvements in programmes, and arrange for adequate financing? Answers illustrated in this paper include comparison of the average costs of specific services among local health care facilities for monitoring and supervision purposes; interpretat...

Changing Cause of Death Profile in Morocco: The Impact of Child-survival Programmes

This study was carried out to evaluate the trends in cause-specific mortality and the impact of child-survival programmes in Morocco. Two national surveys on causes and circumstances of child deaths were conducted in Morocco in 1988 and 1998 (ECCD-1 and ECCD-2 respectively). These surveys were based on a representative sample of deaths of children aged less than five years (432 and 866 respecti...