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 ...

introduction: child mortality indices are key element that reflects health status of societies and inform policy makers to take suitable policies to reduce them. this study was performed to examine the main determinants of under-5 mortality rate (u5mr) in oecd countries in two cross-sections, 2010 and 2013, and the results of them was compared. material and methods: this was a cross- sectional ...

Introduction: Child mortality indices are key element that reflects health Status of societies and inform policy makers to take suitable policies to reduce them. This study was performed to examine the main determinants of under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) in OECD countries in two cross-sections, 2010 and 2013, and the results of them was compared. Material and Methods: This was a cross- sectional ...

Monitoring development indicators has become a central interest of international agencies and countries for tracking progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. In this review, which also provides an introduction to a collection of articles, we describe the methodology used by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation to track country-specific changes in the ke...

OBJECTIVES The target of the Fourth Millennium Development Goal (MDG-4) is to reduce the rate of under-five mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015. Despite substantial progress towards achieving the target of the MDG-4 in Iran at the national level, differences at the sub-national levels should be taken into consideration. METHODS The under-five mortality data available from the Deputy...

Since 2000, countries have made substantial progress in reducing under-five mortality, but Haiti, an impoverished country the Latin America and Caribbean region, faces major health challenges, including a high level of child mortality. However, few studies focused on analysing trends mortality rate (U5MR), determinants geographical disparities within country. This study analyses trend U5MR Hait...

BACKGROUND The under five mortality rate (U5MR) is measure of wellbeing and decreasing the U5MR by two thirds is the target towards the achievement of the millennium development goal number four (MDG4). OBJECTIVE To describe the changes in U5MR in Uganda from 1954 to 2000 and use them to project future trends up to 2015. METHODS We did a retrospective analysis of the Uganda national censuse...

Monitoring development indicators has become a central interest of international agencies and countries for tracking progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. In this review, which also provides an introduction to a collection of articles, we describe the methodology used by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation to track countryspecific changes in the key...

BACKGROUND In September 2013, the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) published an update of the estimates of the under-five mortality rate (U5MR) and under-five deaths for all countries. Compared to the UN IGME estimates published in 2012, updated data inputs and a new method for estimating the U5MR were used. METHODS We summarize the new U5MR estimatio...