Country-level causes of child mortality
Only a small fraction of child deaths occur in countries with complete civil registration of deaths and their causes, and, despite efforts by the Health Metrics Network and others, complete and accurate civil registration of...
Child Mortality and Morbidity
Risk Factors for Maternal and Child Health
Underlying causes of child death
Indoor and outdoor air pollution
Effect of co-morbidity on child mortality
IUGR and preterm birth as risk factors for morbidity/mortality
Country-level causes of child mortality
Micronutrient deficiencies and nutritional status
Failures...
Failures in the “pathways to survival”
Knowledge of the biological causes of child death is important, but additional information on failures at household, community and health system levels to avert death is critical to improving programs to reduce mortality. Effective...
Datasets by Publication
Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality: an updated systematic analysis for 2010 with time trends since 2000. The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 11 May 2012. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60560-1
• CHERG Child Causes of Death Annual Estimates by Country,...
IUGR and preterm birth as risk factors for morbidity/mortality
CHERG has identified the need for additional work on intra-uterine growth restriction (IUGR) and pre-term birth. Both these conditions, individually and together, are important risk factors for neonatal (and perhaps later)...
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Reference
Munos, MK, Walker CL, Black RE. The effect of oral rehydration solution and recommended home fluids on diarrhea mortality. Int J Epidemiol. 2010 Apr; 39 (Suppl 1): i75-i87.
Background
Diarrhoeal disease in children aged...
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Search Publications
Boschi-Pinto C, Lanata C, Black R. The Global Burden of Childhood Diarrhoea. In: Ehriri JE & Martin Meremikwu (eds.). International Maternal & Child Health. Springer Publishers, Washington DC.
O’Brien KL, Wolfson LJ, Watt JP, Henkle E, Deloria-Knoll M, McCall...
Background
The Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group (CHERG) was established in 2001 by the World Health Organization (WHO) as an independent source of technical expertise on child morbidity and mortality estimates at global and country levels. The CHERG process can...
Measurement of intervention coverage
Although UNICEF and other partners have invested heavily in efforts to track coverage levels for effective maternal, newborn and child (MNC) survival and nutrition interventions methodological weaknesses in current efforts to measure coverage, and especially coverage...
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