Newborn and child health indices in Nigeria are also amongst the worst in the world [4] with neonatal mortality and under mortality rates of 32.9 deaths per 1000 live births and 100.2 deaths per 1000 live births in 2017, respectively [5]. The poor maternal and newborn child health (MNCH)...
In Brazil, for example, urban health professionals outnumber their rural counterparts six-fold (see Figure 3). To address disparities (i.e. inequity) in health outcomes, the Ministry of Health launched an initiative to reduce infant mortality in the country's poorer, more rural Northeast and ...