"The paper examines the mother's health-seeking behaviour and childhood mortality in Pakistan. This is based on the 1990-91 Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (PDHS).... It was found that neonatal, infant, and child mortality rate is the highest among children of mothers aged less than 20 years. Infant and child mortality rate is likewise higher among first and higher order births than amon...

Child mortality remains a huge challenge in South Africa. Although there have been numerous national level child mortality studies, few studies have focused on child mortality and its determinants at sub-national levels. This paper uses data collected from the 2007 Community Survey to investigate district level variations in under-five mortality rate (U5MR) in South Africa. Exploratory Spatial ...

Afghanistan's maternal and child mortality rates are among the highest in the world. The country faces challenges to meet the Millennium Development Goals set for 2015 which can be attributed to multiple causes related to accessibility, affordability and availability of health-care services. This report addresses the challenges in strengthening maternal and child health care in Afghanistan, as ...

This paper describes the integrated approach taken by the Government of Ethiopia with support from the Essential Services for Health in Ethiopia (ESHE) Project and assesses its effect on the coverage of six child health practices associated with reducing child mortality. The ESHE Project was designed to contribute to reducing high child mortality rates at scale among 14.5 million people through...

Since 1950, global poverty and child mortality rates have declined more rapidly than during any other period in history. Progress has been uneven, however, so that inequalities have widened; since the 1970s, an increasing number of countries have experienced periods of prolonged economic decline. Eighty countries now have per capita incomes lower than in 1990. Partly in consequence, indicators ...

OBJECTIVE To analyse trends in under-five mortality rate in South Africa (1990-2011), particularly the contribution of AIDS deaths. METHODS Three nationally used models for estimating AIDS deaths in children were systematically reviewed. The model outputs were compared with under-five mortality rate estimates for South Africa from two global estimation models. All estimates were compared with...

Taking cognisance of the prevailing high maternal and child mortality in the country, India's latest (Eighth) Five Year Plan has adopted an ambitious programme for 'Child Survival and Safe Motherhood (CSSM)'. The major objectives of this programme are the reduction of IMR to 50, underfive mortality to 70, maternal mortality t~ 200, and crude birth rate (CBR) to nine. The targets for service-cov...

OBJECTIVE The Integrated Management of Childhood Illness is a strategy designed to address major causes of child mortality. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of the strategy on the quality of child health care provided at primary facilities. METHODS Child health quality of care and costs were compared in four states in Northeastern Brazil, in 2001. There were studied 48 health fa...