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...
diarrhea control
CHERG is a group of technical experts that is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. While external to the UN system, CHERG was convened to assist WHO and UNICEF with the goal of providing global technical leadership...
Datasets by publication
Other Resources
Interim estimates of global under-five diarrhea and pneumonia deaths in 2011. (December 2012). Li Liu, Jamie Perin, Christa Fisher-Walker, Robert E. Black.
Maternal Mortality, Child Mortality, Perinatal Mortality, Child Cognition, and Estimates of Prevalence of Anemia due to Iron...
Incidence and sequelae of child morbidity
CHERG will provide estimates of child morbidity, including etiology-specific morbidity, by continuously updating systematic reviews and by seeking additional sources of data from country-level work and from research underway, such as the studies of...
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,...
Incidence and sequelae of maternal morbidity
While there is some information available on the levels of maternal mortality in developing countries, much less is known about the levels of maternal morbidity, including the incidence of the main obstetric complications and...
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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...
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...
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...
