Substantial declines in infant and under-5 mortality have taken place in recent years in many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Kenya's infant mortality rate has fallen by 7.6 percent per year, the fastest rate of decline among the 20 countries in the region for which recent Demographic and ...
The main objective of this study was to examine the patterns of birth intervals and infant and child mortality by birth parities in Kenya, alongside which, other variables both socio-economic and demographic were considered. To achieve this objective, several hypotheses were tested, by applying life...
3. Official development aid and infant mortality According to the World Bank, the infant mortality rate (IMR) for Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole was 56 deaths below the age of one per 1000 live born in 2015, compared to an average of 6 in the OECD countries.4 For Nigeria, the IMR sco...
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The effect of using 'race of child' instead of 'race of mother' on the black-white gap in infant... Reports on a study which sought to evaluate the rate of infant mortality among infants of different races and what impact this had on a change in the way t... Petrini,Joann,Damus,....
Determinants of Infant Mortality in Kenya - Analysis of Kenya DHS 2003 and 2008/9 Infant mortality rate is considered as sensitive indicators of living standard and socio-economic conditions of a country. It remains a big challenge for the Kenyan Government due to the high infant mortality rates...
Ethiopia has made large-scale healthcare investments to improve child health and survival. However, there is insufficient population level data on the current estimates of infant mortality rate (IMR) in the country. The aim of this study was to
scarce resources in West Africa with the aim of improving the survival chance of young children. Introduction Sub-Saharan Africa has continued to bear the enormous burden of infant and child mortality with an under-five mortality rate of 92 deaths per 1000 live births, more than 15 times the ...
j, Estimates of the effect of PM2.5 on all-cause infant mortality from published quasi-experimental studies24,25,26,27,28,29, expressed as the percentage change in the infant mortality rate per 10 μg m−3 increase in PM2.5. Extended Data Table 1 Regression results for main specification...
Progress in child survival also diverges across age groups4. Global reductions in mortality rates of children under 5—that is, the under-5 mortality rate (U5MR)—among post-neonatal age groups are greater than those for mortality of neonates (0–28 days)4,8. It is relatively unclear how ...