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May 11, 2012: Pneumonia and Preterm Birth Complications Are the Leading Causes of Childhood Death  

April 28, 2011: Read Healthy Newborn Network Blog about new LiST capabilities 

April 13, 2011: Stillbirth Data Analysis Added to Lives Saved Tool

Recent publications

Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality: an updated systematic analysis for 2010 with time trends since 2000. The Lancet. May 11, 2012. 

BMC Public Health special issue: Technical inputs, enhancements and applications of the Lives Saved Tool (LiST). BMC Public Health, 11(Suppl 3). 13 April 2011.  

Progress and barriers for the control of diarrhoeal disease. The Lancet. 3 July 2010; 376 (9734): 63-67.Santosham, Mathuram, Aruna Chandran, Sean Fitzwater, Christa Fischer-Walker, Abdullah H Baqui, and Robert Black.

Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality in 2008: a systematic analysis.The Lancet (online), 12 May 2010. Robert E Black, Simon Cousens, Hope L Johnson, Joy E Lawn, Igor Rudan, Diego G Bassani, Prabhat Jha, Harry Campbell, Christa Fischer Walker, Richard Cibulskis, Thomas Eisele, Li Liu, Colin Mathers, for the Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group of WHO and UNICEF

International Journal of Epidemiology special issue on the development and use of the Lives Saved Tool (LiST), April 2010. 

Roca-Feltrer A, Carneiro I, Armstrong Schellenberg JRM. Estimates of the burden of malaria morbidity in Africa in children under the age of 5 years.Tropical Medicine and International Health 2008; 13:771-83.

Rudan I, Boschi-Pinto C, Bloglav Z, Mulholland KE, Campbell H. The Epidemiology and aetiology of childhood pneumonia. Bull World Health Organ 2008; 86:408-16.


Examination of Child in Benin

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Global Child Mortality: Status in 2008 

New Publications 
Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality: an updated systematic analysis for 2010 with time trends since 2000. The Lancet. May 11, 2012.

BMC Public Health special issue: Technical inputs, enhancements and applications of the Lives Saved Tool (LiST).

Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality in 2008: a systematic analysis. The Lancet. May 12, 2010

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Stillbirth Data Analysis Added to Lives Saved Tool

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