OBJECTIVE: The major objective of this study is to provide estimates of diarrhoea mortality
at country, regional and global level by employing the Child Health Epidemiology Reference …

Background Information on cause-of-death is lacking for 98% of the world's 4 million
neonatal deaths that occur in countries with inadequate vital registration (VR). Our aim was …

Background Trend data for causes of child death are crucial to inform priorities for improving
child survival by and beyond 2015. We report child mortality by cause estimates in 2000–13 …

Background Reliable and timely information on the leading causes of death in populations,
and how these are changing, is a crucial input into health policy debates. In the Global …

Background Information about the distribution of causes of and time trends for child mortality
should be periodically updated. We report the latest estimates of causes of child mortality in …

Background. Diarrhea is a leading cause of illness and death among children aged< 5 years
in developing countries. This paper describes the clinical and epidemiological methods …

Background National malaria death rates are difficult to assess because reliably diagnosed
malaria is likely to be cured, and deaths in the community from undiagnosed malaria could …

Objective: To assess the impact on mortality related to pregnancy of supplementing women
of reproductive age each week with a recommended dietary allowance of vitamin A, either …

BackgroundEvidence on mortality in severe mental illness (SMI) comes primarily from
clinical samples in high-income countries. AimsTo describe mortality in people with SMI …

Cause-of-death data derived from verbal autopsy (VA) are increasingly used for health
planning, priority setting, monitoring and evaluation in countries with incomplete or no vital …