Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
Adansi A. Amankwaa, Yanping Wang, Henry Apfel, Marissa Iannarone, Semaw Ferede Abera, Chelsea A Liddell, Maigeng Zhou, Elena Álvarez, Matthew M Coates, Li Y, Jun Zhu, Katherine T Lofgren, Rob Dorrington, Troy Jacobs, Mohammad AbdulAziz AlMazroa, Bryan T. Phillips, Tom Achoki, Peter J. Allen, Ademola Adelekan, Meghan Mooney, Ayşe Abbasoğlu Özgören, Ivo Rakovac, Zewdie Aderaw Alemu, Ibrahim Abubakar, Gonghuan Yang, Xiaofeng Liang, Austin E Schumacher, Shiwei Liu, Carly E Levitz, Haidong Wang, Logan Sandar, Zanfina Ademi
Abstract
Remarkable financial and political efforts have been focused on the reduction of child mortality during the past few decades. Timely measurements of levels and trends in under-5 mortality are important to assess progress towards the Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) target of reduction of child mortality by two thirds from 1990 to 2015, and to identify models of success.