SUVA, July 22 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Pacific Representative Jonathan Veitch said while under-5 mortality rates in the Pacific are generally stable, there are concerning trends as malnutrition remains a significant issue among countries. Veitch made the remarks while...
Global under-five mortality rates have been more than halved since 1990, boys and girls attend primary school in equal numbers in 129 countries, and the number of people living in extreme poverty worldwide is almost half what it was in the 1990s. But this progress has been neither even nor...
Under-five mortality estimates (with 90% uncertainty bounds) from UNICEF [4] for sub-Saharan Africa and South Africa from 1980 to 2013, together with respective MDG4 target levels for...
Seven of the nine countries had high child mortality rates of more than 50 deaths per 1,000 live births among children under five in 2019. In Afghanistan, where 1 in 17 children died before reaching age 5 in 2019, the Ministry of Health reported a significant reduction in visits to health...
Since then, Nepal has made immense progress to improve the lives of children - from decreasing neonatal, infant and under-five mortality rates to raising school enrolment rates and significantly improving access to basic drinking water services. However, there are still pockets of children who are ...
Following the 1990 World Summit for Children, the annual report of UNICEF detailed progress to the Summit's goals it set for the year 2000. The targets are a 33% reduction in under-5 mortality, halving child malnutrition and maternal mortality rates, and 90% immunization coverage of major chi...
Mortality due to pneumonia accounts for approximately one-fourth of the total deaths in under five children, in India. Pneumonia affects children irrespective of socioeconomic status; with higher risk among young infants, malnourished children, non-exclusively breastfed children and those with exposure ...
Mortality from acute respiratory infections in children under 5 years of age: global estimates. This article reports the findings of a study to determine the global magnitude of mortality from acute respiratory infections (ARIs) in children under 5. ... J Leowski - 《World Health Statistics Quar...
MillenniumDevelopmentGoals/MillenniumDeclarationCommitments/CRCArticle(s):Reduceunder-5mortalityrate/CRCArticles6,24 NationalDevelopmentPriorities:Improvethequalityoflifeofpeople(MDG1,3,4&6)andSustainabledevelopmentofenvironment(MDG7) UNSFOutcome:Improvedaccesstoandutilizationofessential,adequateandqualitysocialservices...
Accelerated progress to reduce under-5 mortality in India Author information: (1)Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, B-10, Soami Nagar, New Delhi 110017, India. Electronic address: rajkbhan@gm... Bhan,Maharaj Kishan - 《Lancet Global Health》 被引量: 19发表: 2013年 ...