Global, regional, and national causes of under-5 mortality in 2000–15: an updated systematic analysis with implications for the Sustainable Development Goals

Despite remarkable progress in the improvement of child survival between 1990 and 2015, the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 target of a two-thirds reduction of under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) was not achieved globally. In this paper, we updated our annual estimates of child mortality by cause to 2...

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Published in:	The Lancet (British edition) Vol. 388; no. 10063; pp. 3027 - 3035
Main Authors:	Liu, Li, Oza, Shefali, Hogan, Dan, Chu, Yue, Perin, Jamie, Zhu, Jun, Lawn, Joy E, Cousens, Simon, Mathers, Colin, Black, Robert E
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England Elsevier Ltd 17.12.2016 Elsevier Limited Elsevier
Subjects:	Africa Asia Cause of Death - trends Child mortality Child Mortality - trends Child, Preschool Children & youth Childrens health Communicable Diseases - mortality Diarrhea - mortality Epidemiology Global Health Goals Humans Infant Infant, Newborn Internal Medicine Malaria Malaria - mortality Mortality Neonates Plasmodium falciparum - isolation & purification Pneumonia - mortality Public health Survival Sustainable development Vaccines Vector-borne diseases
ISSN:	0140-6736, 1474-547X, 1474-547X
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