Keeping score: fostering accountability for children's lives

Keeping score: fostering accountability for children's lives

We live in a remarkable era of accelerated progress in reducing child deaths in the poorest countries. The death rate in children younger than 5 years in low-income countries has dropped by 28·1% since 2000. The Millennium Declaration set an ambitious goal of reducing the death rate in this age grou...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Lancet (British edition) 2015-07, Vol.386 (9988), p.3-5
Hauptverfasser: Murray, Christopher, Chambers, Ray
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Child Mortality
Child Welfare - economics
Child Welfare - statistics & numerical data
Child, Preschool
Children & youth
Childrens health
Developing countries
Funding
Health care expenditures
Humans
Infant
Infant Mortality
Internal Medicine
International Cooperation
LDCs
Low income areas
Low income groups
Mortality
Social Responsibility
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Zusammenfassung:We live in a remarkable era of accelerated progress in reducing child deaths in the poorest countries. The death rate in children younger than 5 years in low-income countries has dropped by 28·1% since 2000. The Millennium Declaration set an ambitious goal of reducing the death rate in this age group by two-thirds in each country.
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(15)61171-0