Uganda suffers from a high rate of child mortality which has improved little if at all in the last twenty years. The paper uses data from the 1992 Integrated Household Survey to model the determinants of child mortality and malnutrition. Parental beliefs about health have a strong and very highly significant influence on child mortality. Education and income also play a role, partly coming thro...

Globally, child mortality rates have been halved over the last few decades, a developmental success story. Nevertheless, progress has been uneven and in recent years mortality rates have increased in some countries. The present study documents the slowing decline in infant mortality rates in india; a departure from the longer-term trends. The major causes of childhood mortality are also reviewe...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of the present study was to compare the associations of state-referenced and federal poverty measures with states' infant and child mortality rates. METHODS Compressed mortality and Current Population Survey data were used to examine relationships between mortality and (1) state-referenced poverty (percentage of children below half the state median income) and (2) perce...

OBJECTIVE To estimate levels and trends, gender differentials, effect of modes of living, regional differentials, and the effect of parental educational on infant and child mortality. METHODS A nationwide stratified random sample was used to estimate levels, trends and differentials of infant and child mortality in Saudi Arabia. The study was executed during the period February 2006 to June 2...

BACKGROUND The fourth Millennium Development Goal calls for a two-thirds reduction in under-5 mortality between 1990 and 2015. Under-5 mortality rate is declining, but many countries are still far from achieving the goal. Effective child health interventions that could reduce child mortality exist, but national decision-makers lack contextual information for priority setting in their respective...

BACKGROUND Guinea Bissau is one of the poorest countries in the world, with one of the highest under-5 mortality rate. Despite its importance for policy planning, data on child mortality are often not available or of poor quality in low-income countries like Guinea Bissau. Our aim in this study was to use the baseline survey to estimate child mortality in rural villages in southern Guinea Bissa...

INTRODUCTION From 1990-2010, worldwide child mortality declined by 43%, and maternal mortality declined by 40%. This paper compares two sources of progress: improvements in societal coverage of health determinants versus improvements in the impact of health determinants as a result of technical change. METHODS This paper decomposes the progress made by 146 low- and middle-income countries (LM...

background shigellosis as a global human health problem is more severe than other forms of gastroenteritis and causes over a million deaths in developing countries worldwide annually. fatality due to shigellosis is usually due to dehydration and two-third of fatalities are seen among children. the aim of current study was to describe fatal cases of shigellosis due to infection with shigella son...

RESULTS 8 correlated indicators met our analysis criteria: teenage pregnancy rate, neonatal mortality, mother mortality, measles immunization rate, post-neonatal mortality, AIDS incidence, male systolic blood pressure and cervical cancer mortality. The factor analysis reduced this set to 3 components or iHPIs, which could be grouped in ‘mother & child mortality’, ‘prevention’ and ‘AIDS incidenc...

mortality rate indicator for children under 5 years old is one of the important indicators in countries' development. identifying the most common causes of mortality is one of the most important attempts to reduce mortality in children less than 5 years. the purpose of this study was to identify distribution of the mortality causes in iranian children less than 5 years.this cross-sectional stud...