作者
Danzhen You, Lucia Hug, Simon Ejdemyr, Priscila Idele, Daniel Hogan, Colin Mathers, Patrick Gerland, Jin Rou New, Leontine Alkema
发表日期
2015/12/5
期刊
The Lancet
卷号
386
期号
10010
页码范围
2275-2286
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Background
In 2000, world leaders agreed on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). MDG 4 called for a two-thirds reduction in the under-5 mortality rate between 1990 and 2015. We aimed to estimate levels and trends in under-5 mortality for 195 countries from 1990 to 2015 to assess MDG 4 achievement and then intended to project how various post-2015 targets and observed rates of change will affect the burden of under-5 deaths from 2016 to 2030.
Methods
We updated the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) database with 5700 country-year datapoints. As of July, 2015, the database contains about 17 000 country-year datapoints for mortality of children younger than 5 years for 195 countries, and includes all available nationally-representative data from vital registration systems, population censuses, household surveys, and sample registration systems. We used these data …
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