An estimated 9.7 million children under the age of five die every year worldwide,
approximately 41% of them in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA). Access to adequate health care is …

Background Existing studies indicate that about one in every six children dies before age
five in Nigeria. While evidence suggests that improved access to adequate health care holds …

OBJECTIVE: To assess whether traditional measures of access to health care (distance and
travel time to a facility) and non-traditional measures (social and financial support indicators) …

Background Regions with geographically diverse ecology and socioeconomic
circumstances may have different disease exposures and child health outcomes. This study …

Background Despite important progress, the burden of under-5 mortality remains
unacceptably high, with an estimated 5.3 million deaths in 2018. Lack of access to health …

Background Understanding urban-rural gap in childhood survival is essential for health care
interventions and to explain disparities in the determinants of Under-5 mortality. There is …

Introduction Although health expenditure in sub-Saharan African countries is the lowest
compared with other regions in the world, most African countries have improved their budget …

This study aims to investigate the relation between distance to health facilities, measured as
continuous travel time, and mortality among infants and children younger than 5 years of …

In two cross-sections of developing countries, under-5 mortality is found to be associated
strongly with maternal and infant health program effort and with the share of births attended …

Background The aim of the study was to analyse trends in the relationship between mother's
educational level and mortality of children under the year of five in Sub-Saharan Africa, from …