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Mapping 123 million neonatal, infant and child deaths between 2000 and 2017
- Abstract:
- Since 2000, many countries have achieved considerable success in improving child survival, but localized progress remains unclear. To inform efforts towards United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3.2-to end preventable child deaths by 2030-we need consistently estimated data at the subnational level regarding child mortality rates and trends. Here we quantified, for the period 2000-2017, the subnational variation in mortality rates and number of deaths of neonates, infants and children under 5 years of age within 99 low- and middle-income countries using a geostatistical survival model. We estimated that 32% of children under 5 in these countries lived in districts that had attained rates of 25 or fewer child deaths per 1,000 live births by 2017, and that 58% of child deaths between 2000 and 2017 in these countries could have been averted in the absence of geographical inequality. This study enables the identification of high-mortality clusters, patterns of progress and geographical inequalities to inform appropriate investments and implementations that will help to improve the health of all populations.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1038/s41586-019-1545-0
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- Publisher:
- Nature Research
- Journal:
- Nature More from this journal
- Volume:
- 574
- Issue:
- 7778
- Pages:
- 353-358
- Publication date:
- 2019-10-16
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-08-06
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1476-4687
- ISSN:
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0028-0836
- Pmid:
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31619795
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English
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pubs:1063668
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uuid:488e7b9c-093c-43cc-bbb4-e03f796a1b81
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pubs:1063668
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1063668
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- Burstein et al
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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