Causes of death in children younger than 5 years in China in 2008 – Authors' reply

[...] we believe that the estimates of proportional causes of death in our paper should be considered reliable and that the rapid decline in pneumonia mortality in China can be largely explained by a rapid decline in the overall mortality rate in children younger than 5 years. China has addressed ch...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Lancet (British edition) Jg. 376; H. 9735; S. 89 - 90
Hauptverfasser: Rudan, Igor, Chan, Kit Yee, Zhang, Jian Shayne F, Theodoratou, Evropi, Guo, Yan, Campbell, Harry
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London Elsevier Ltd 2010
Elsevier Limited
Schlagworte:
Children & youth
Colleges & universities
Confidence intervals
Economic growth
Epidemiology
Health sciences
Internal Medicine
Medical research
Mortality
Pneumonia
ISSN:0140-6736, 1474-547X
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Zusammenfassung:[...] we believe that the estimates of proportional causes of death in our paper should be considered reliable and that the rapid decline in pneumonia mortality in China can be largely explained by a rapid decline in the overall mortality rate in children younger than 5 years. China has addressed child mortality through careful central planning and the coordinated, massive improvement in social determinants of child survival, near-universal primary health care, expanded vaccination coverage, economic growth, infrastructure development, health-systems building, integration of minority populations, maternal education, improved sanitation, and the introduction of the "one child" policy.
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ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61074-4