Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality during 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.

Wang, Haidong; A Liddell, Chelsea; M Coates, Matthew; D Mooney, Meghan; E Levitz, Carly; E Schumacher, Austin; Apfel, Henry; Iannarone, Marissa; Phillips, Bryan; T Lofgren, Katherine; Sandar, Logan; E Dorrington, Rob; Rakovac, Ivo; A Jacobs, Troy; Liang, Xiaofeng; Zhou, Maigeng; Zhu, Jun; Yang, Gonghuan; Wang, Yanping; Liu, Shiwei; Li, Yichong; Abbasoglu Ozgoren, Ayse; Ferede Abera, Semaw; Abubakar, Ibrahim; Achoki, Tom; Adelekan, Ademola; Ademi, Zanfina; Aderaw Alemu, Zewdie; J Allen, Peter; AbdulAziz AlMazroa, Mohammad; Alvarez, Elena; A Amankwaa, Adansi; T Amare, Azmeraw; Ammar, Walid; Anwari, Palwasha; Argeseanu Cunningham, Solveig; Masoud Asad, Majed; Assadi, Reza; Banerjee, Amitava; Basu, Sanjay; Bedi, Neeraj; Bekele, Tolesa; L Bell, Michelle; Bhutta, Zulfiqar; D Blore, Jed; Bora Basara, Berrak; Boufous, Soufiane; Breitborde, Nicholas; G Bruce, Nigel; Ngoc Bui, Linh

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(14)60497-9

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Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality during 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.

Published in Lancet (London, England) • Sep 13, 2014

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Authors:

Haidong Wang

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Chelsea A Liddell

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Matthew M Coates

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Remarkable financial and political efforts have been focused on the reduction of child mortality during the past few decades. Timely measurements of levels and trends in under-5 mortality are important to assess progress towards the Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) target of reducti...

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