Thursday 2 October 2014

Child Mortality Falls Worldwide, but Not Fast Enough

A study led by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health finds millions of children worldwide still die before their fifth birthday, with complications from preterm birth and pneumonia together killing nearly 2 million young children in 2013. Their report, published online Oct. 1 in iThe Lancet/i, examines what caused an estimated 6.3 million children under the age of five to die in 2013, one-third fewer than the 9.9 million estimated to have died ...

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