Under-five mortalityNFHS-4IndiaAlthough under-five mortality has declined in India, the target is yet to be achieved. The objective of this secondary analysis was to find out the influence of maternal and child factors on the likelihood of mortality among under-five children. The study is ...
Child mortality is one of the key indicators of the Sustainable development goals. The Ethiopian healthcare system in general and Tigray’s healthcare system in particular has shown a remarkable progress in terms of reducing maternal, neonatal, and under-five mortality in the last couple of decade...
Under-5 mortalitySon preference has been linked to excess female under-5 mortality in India, and considerable literature has explored whether parents invest more resources in sons relative to daughters鈥攚hich we refer to as explicit discrimination 鈥攍eading to girls' poorer health status and, ...
Under Five Mortality Rate (U5MR) of a nation is widely accepted and a long-standing indicator of their children. In 2017, the sex-specific under-five mortality rate was 39 per 1,000 live births for male and 40 per 1,000 live births for females. India U5MR decrease from 124 per 1000...
Mortality under five years is an important indicator and a significant index for assessing the health and general wellbeing of a country. Even though global efforts to reduce under-five mortality have yielded some positive results, the rates are still hi
Worldwide achievement of the UN 2015 Millennium Development Goal for under-5 mortality (MDG 4) will depend on progress in the subregions of India. We aimed to estimate neonatal, 1–59 months, and overall under-5 mortality by sex for 597 Indian districts and to assess whether India is on ...
From 1991 to 2022, totally, there were 166,061 live births and 793 (4.78 ‰) under-5 deaths. The mortality rates of under-5 children, infants and neonates in Xicheng district decreased from 14.75 ‰, 11.25 ‰ and 8.00 ‰ to 1.03 ‰, 0.83 ‰ and 0.41 ‰ respectively. All mortality ...
This paper examines the impact of rural–urban migration on under-two mortality in India, using data from the 1992/93 Indian National Family Health Survey. Multilevel logistic models are fitted for mortality in three age groups: neonatal, early post-neonatal, and late post-neonatal and toddler....
The age-specific all-cause death estimates were derived from age-specific child mortality estimates produced by the UN Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN-IGME).5 The livebirth estimates were produced by the UN Population Division.6 To generate cause-specific mortality fractions ...
Addressing the media here yesterday, Anuradha Gupta, Additional Secretary and Mission Director, National Rural Health Mission said India's decline in Under Five Mortality Rate (U5MR) during 2005-10 has accelerated to an average of 7.National summit on ' Call to Action for Child Survival' to be...