5.9 million children under age five died in 2015, 16 000 every day. globally, under-five mortality rate has decreased by 53%, from an estimated rate of 91 deaths per 1000 live births in 1990 to 43 deaths per 1000 live births in 2015. the average annual rate of reduction in under-five mortality has accelerated from 1.8%  a year over the period 1990–2000 to 3.9%  for 2000–2015 , but remains insuf...

5.9 million children under age five died in 2015, 16 000 every day. Globally, under-five mortality rate has decreased by 53%, from an estimated rate of 91 deaths per 1000 live births in 1990 to 43 deaths per 1000 live births in 2015. The average annual rate of reduction in under-five mortality has accelerated from 1.8%  a year over the period 1990–2000 to 3.9%  for 2000–2015 , but remains insuf...

investigating the relationship between the awareness of the mothers referring to health and treatment centers in khoy and their function about the nourishment of the children under 3 years old f safar alizadeh , msc h parto azam , msc r sodefi , msc received: 22 april, 2009 accepted: 11 july, 2009 abstract: background & aims: the crisis of malnutrition in early childhood is high and according t...

BACKGROUND After a decade of focused efforts to reduce under-5 mortality results have been mixed, with the HIV/AIDS epidemic often used to explain reversing trends. We investigated this assumption by estimating HIV-attributable under-5 mortality in 39 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and comparing it to total mortality in children younger than 5 years between 1990 and 1999. METHODS Annual HIV-...

Globally, human rotavirus (RV) remains the most common cause of severe diarrhea in children, causing 453,000 deaths per year and proximately 2.4 million hospitalization among children aged less than 5 years, with a maximum incidence in the developing countries [1-3]. Transmissions of RVs occur mainly via fecal-oral contact but it also might be transmitted by respiratory spread [4,5]. RV group A...

The main deficiencies in the diet of Bangladeshi infants and children are vitamin D, iron, and later, calories. Protein intake is a little low in some, but in general is satisfactory. Calcium and vitamin C intakes are adequate. The proportions of food are often inappropriate, mainly because of a high carbohydrate intake. Weaning tends to be late, with predominant milk drinking, even into the se...

Immunization remains always a big challenge for Pakistan and the coverage has been reported significant low that results high morbidity, mortality reported due to vaccine preventable diseases. This study was part of quasi-experimental with control and intervention design and was conducted in primary Health care governmental Basic Health unit’s catchment population of Panjgur by interviewing hou...

BACKGROUND The disease burden of influenza among children in China has not been well described. OBJECTIVE To estimate the influenza-associated excess hospitalization rate and compare the hospitalization length and costs between pneumonia and influenza (P&I) and other community-acquired diseases (CAD) in Suzhou, China. METHODS We retrospectively collected hospital discharge data on pediatric...