BACKGROUND Household air pollution (HAP) - predominantly from cooking fuel is a major public health hazard and one of the leading causes of respiratory illness and deaths among children under-five years in India. This study investigates the association between HAP from cooking fuel and under-five mortality using India's National Family and Health Survey (NFHS) datasets over the period 1992-2006...

BACKGROUND The risk of a child dying before reaching five years of age is highest in Sub-Saharan African countries. But Child mortality rates have shown substantial decline in Ethiopia. It is important to identify factors affecting under-five mortality. METHODS A structured additive logistic regression model which accounts the spatial correlation was adopted to estimate under-five mortality r...

The study assessed the achievements in, critically reviewed the relevant issues of, and put forward recommendations for achieving the target of the Millennium Development Goal relating to mortality of children aged less than five years (under-five mortality) in Bangladesh within 2015. To materialize the study objectives, a thorough literature review was done. Mortality of under-five children an...

BACKGROUND Cambodia has made considerable improvements in mortality rates for children under the age of five and neonates. These improvements may, however, mask considerable disparities between subnational populations. In this paper, we examine the extent of the country's child mortality inequalities. METHODS Mortality rates for children under-five and neonates were directly estimated using t...

BACKGROUND Under-five mortality remains high in Burkina Faso with significant reductions required to meet Millennium Development Goal 4. The Acceleration for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health is being implemented to reduce child mortality in the North and Center North regions of Burkina Faso. METHODS The Lives Saved Tool was used to determine the percent reduction in child mortality that ca...

BACKGROUND Despite global declaration of the right to life as a fundamental human right and substantial progress in reducing childhood mortality, unacceptably high number of children still die before their fifth birthday every day. Different factors have been studied and implicated for under-five mortality with mixed results. Mortality studies in the current study sites were lacking. Therefore,...

OBJECTIVES Under the prevailing conditions of imbalanced life table and historic gender discrimination in India, our study examines crossover between life expectancies at ages zero, one and five years for India and quantifies the relative share of infant and under-five mortality towards this crossover. METHODS We estimate threshold levels of infant and under-five mortality required for crosso...

Infant and child are the assets of a country. Women are at the heart of development because they bear children and they are nearly half of the total population. Infant and child mortality is powerful indicators to assess overall health situation of a country. Demographic and household factors have strong influence on infant and child mortality. So, the aim of this study is to identify the effec...