INTRODUCTION Today, it is recognized that factors other than health services are involved in health improvement and decreased inequality so identifying them is the main concern of policy makers and health authorities. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of governance indicators on health outcomes. METHODS A panel data study was conducted to investigate the effect of governance...

BACKGROUND Like many developing countries, Mali has few sources of mortality data. High quality mortality estimates are available from household surveys, such as the demographic and health surveys (DHS), approximately every five years, making it difficult to track progress in reducing mortality. The Rapid Mortality Monitoring (RMM) project in Mali aimed to address this issue by testing a commun...

OBJECTIVE To examine historical estimates of infant and under-five mortality in Afghanistan, provide estimates for rural areas from current population-based data, and discuss the methodological challenges that undermine data quality and hinder retrospective estimations of mortality. METHODS Indirect methods of estimation were used to calculate infant and under-five mortality from a household ...

OBJECTIVE Brazil's large socioeconomic inequalities together with the increase in neonatal mortality jeopardize the MDG-4 child mortality target by 2015. We measured inequality trends in neonatal and under five mortality across municipalities characterized by their socio-economic status in a period where major pro poor policies were implemented in Brazil to infer whether policies and interventi...

OBJECTIVE The literature on the impact of internal migration on under-five mortality in sub-Saharan Africa has been limited. This study examined the impact of internal migration on under-five mortality rate in 27 sub-Saharan African countries. DESIGN The analysis used cross-sectional data from the most recent Demographic and Health Surveys of 27 sub-Saharan African countries. Information on t...

BackgroundAlthough under-five mortality has declined in India, the target is yet to be achieved. The objective of this secondary analysis was find out influence maternal and child factors on likelihood among children.MethodsThe study based Indian National Family Health Survey-4, 2015-16 data. A stratified multistage clustering sampling technique used. primary outcome variable our deaths that oc...