News tagged with child survival
Education - a key determinant of population growth and human well-being
28 July 2011 -- Future trends in global population growth could be significantly affected by improvements in both the quality and quantity of education, particularly female education. Projections of future population trends ...
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Jul 28, 2011 |
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Africa, South Asia lag in boost to global child health
The global mortality rate for young children has been nearly halved in the past two decades, but Africa and South Asia have not kept pace, the United Nations said Thursday.
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Sep 13, 2012 |
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UNICEF studies highlight the importance of equity in maternal and child health improvement strategies
Two studies from UNICEF, forming The Lancet Series on equity in child survival, health, and nutrition, provide compelling evidence for the strategic importance of focusing global health improvement efforts on the poorest and ha ...
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Sep 19, 2012 |
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Development aid for maternal and child heath stalls, despite increasing number of donors
Latest figures from the Countdown to 2015 group, published in The Lancet, show that official development aid for maternal, newborn, and child health activities stalled for the first time in 2010, with the total volume of aid ...
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Sep 19, 2012 |
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Preventable infectious diseases caused almost two-thirds of global child under-5 deaths in 2010
In 2010, preventable infectious diseases were responsible for almost two-thirds of the 7.6 million deaths of children under five worldwide, according to new estimates published Online First in The Lancet. Although child ...
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May 10, 2012 |
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A report card on adolescents from UNICEF
In a Comment with The Lancet Series on Adolescent Health, Dr Tessa Wardlaw, Chief of Statistics and Monitoring, UNICEF, New York, USA, and colleagues discuss the forthcoming UNICEF publication Progress for Children: A Repo ...
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Apr 24, 2012 |
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New PLOS collection: Child mortality estimation methods
Child mortality is a key indicator not only of child health and nutrition but also of the implementation of child survival interventions and, more broadly, of social and economic development. Millennium Development Goal 4 ...
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Aug 28, 2012 |
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Sexually transmitted infections in adolescents in countries of all incomes remain great concern
In a Comment linked to The Lancet Series on Adolescent Health, Professor Robert W Blum (Chair of the Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD) an ...
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Apr 24, 2012 |
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New study identifies promising, achievable solutions to Nigeria's childhood mortality crisis
A study released today by the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has identified the most feasible and impactful solutions for Nigeria's immunization program that ...
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Apr 12, 2012 |
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