Chapter 7. Interventions to Reduce Maternal and Child Morbidity ...

Over the past several decades, important advances have been made in reducing infant and under-five mortality due to vaccine- preventable diseases. This downward ...







Global Estimates and Projections of Mortality by Cause
In the current study, the important risk factors for under-five-year-old children's time to death were shown to grow as their moth- er's age ...
Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under-5 ...
For children who are five and over, non-communicable diseases were the most common causes of death [2]. In Vietnam, the under-five mortality ...
UNDER-5 MORTALITY STATISTICS IN SOUTH AFRICA:
Objectives To examine the potential for bias in the estimate of under- 5 mortality due to birth defects recently produced by the WHO and the ...
Maternal and Neonatal Immunization Field Guide - Iris Paho
The study has demonstrated that household wealth plays a crucial role in the survival of children under-five years of age in many countries in the study.
Exemplars in Under-5 Mortality: Ethiopia Case Study
Introduction: Addressing neonatal mortality is an important priority for improving the health and well-being of newborns.
Morbidity and Mortality Patterns in Children Admitted to Hospital in ...
The relationship between the preceding birth-to-pregnancy interval and under-five mortality is highly significant. (p<0.001) and each interval group under 36 ...
World Mortality Report 2015 - the United Nations
Basic health care provision and under-5 mortality: a cross-national study of developing countries. World Development. 2006; 34(3): pp. 405 ...
Further Evidence of the Effects of Preceding Birth Intervals
The regional variation in magnitude of the Neonatal, Infant and. Under-five Mortality Rates highlight the importance of addressing and responding to the ...
Determinants of death among under-5 children in Bangladesh
Conclusion: Despite the downward trend, the mortality rate of children under 5 years old at the surveillance sites is high. Effective intervention measures ...
CHILD HEALTH STANDARDS AND STRATEGY
A meta-analysis [59] of five cohort studies showed an 83% increased risk of infant mortality among IPIs of less than 18 months (RR = 1.83; 95% CI = 1.19, 2.81).
Risk factors of under-five and infant mortality
The objective of this study was to estimate prevalence, risk factors and population attributable risk for neonatal, infant, child and under-five ...
Neonatal tetanus in the world today - IRIS
Neonatal tetanus is an important cause of avoidable morbidity and mortality. In the past this disease was overlooked by the health services of many ...