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In other words, if the rate of child mortality had remained constant between 1990 and today, 122 million more children would have died than did in fact die over that period.
And yet, in the regions with the highest mortality rates, we lack the most basic information about why children die.
Since 1990, we have halved child mortality worldwide; but nearly six million children under the age of five still die from preventable causes.
The CHAMPS program – a long-term initiative led by the Emory Global Health Institute, with partners including the International Association of National Public Health Institutes, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Task Force for Global Health – eventually will involve some 20 sites in areas with the highest child mortality rates.
There are many possible interventions – such as providing folic acid to prevent birth defects, introducing new vaccines, or treating infections earlier – that we know could have an impact on child mortality.
Furthermore, each site will help build the capacity of partner countries’ public health systems, providing valuable data and technical support that will have an impact far beyond helping to reduce child mortality.
By accurately tracking the causes of child mortality, we can target treatments more precisely and usher in a new era – one in which preventable child deaths really will be a thing of the past.
The research points not only to reduced maternal and child mortality, but also to economic benefits, perhaps giving the right more reasons to take another look.
Child mortality is plunging.
When a fourteen-year-old boy became Turkey’s first avian flu mortality last week (soon followed by two siblings), a government spokesman criticized doctors for mentioning the disease because they were “damaging Turkey’s reputation.”
And sustained government investment in public health is reflected in steady improvement in India’s infant mortality rate, maternal mortality rate, and life expectancy.
Since 1990, the share of people living in extreme poverty in the developing world has fallen from 47% to 14%, and child mortality – a critical indicator – has been halved.
Poor states that spend public money more wisely improved people's lives quite quickly: Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan illustrate the value of better governance;Other measures of development, such as the Indian Human Development Index (which includes literacy, infant mortality, access to safe water and durably constructed housing, as well as formal education, poverty ratios, and per capita expenditure), do not show increased inequality;Exclusive focus on the states ignores problems that are concentrated at lower levels: available evidence, albeit limited, suggests that decentralizing policy-making power that is currently exercised at the state level could lead to further improvement in overall economic performance.
Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Peru, and Botswana all halved neonatal mortality during the 1990s.
The additional cost of maintaining essential newborn health interventions at 90% coverage in the 75 countries with the highest mortality is estimated to be a mere $4.1billion per year.
Even with a weak health system, it is possible to achieve measurable mortality reduction.
Moreover, increased openness to trade is associated with lower rates of infant mortality and higher life expectancy, especially in developing countries.
Indeed, maternal and child mortality has decreased by millions, but many of these preventable deaths are still claiming the lives of hundreds of thousands of women and children each year.
The UN’s own calls to accelerate momentum at the launch of the 500-day countdown to the MDGs’ expiry highlight the fact that inequality, maternal mortality from childbirth, lack of universal education, and environmental degradation remain serious challenges.
The fourth rule is that leaders should surround themselves with well-weathered colleagues and advisers who will remind them, as often as necessary, of their mortality.
Although many fail to realize this, human beings-- the only creatures fully aware of their being and mortality, who perceive their surroundings as a world and have an inner relationship to that world -- derive dignity, as well as responsibility, from the world as a whole; that is, from that in which they see the world's central theme, its backbone, its order, its direction, its essence, its soul -- name it as you will.
Sustained economic growth is essential to maintain progress on reducing poverty, infant mortality, disease, and malnutrition.
In many places, however, encouraging women to deliver in health facilities, rather than at home, has not resulted in reduced mortality.
Progress on reducing maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity, it has become clear, requires improving and strengthening the capabilities and quality of care in primary care facilities that provide labor and delivery services.
Yet the evidence showed that we needed to do more to achieve a large-scale reduction in mortality rates.
We are closer than we have ever been to closing the gaps that account for most maternal and newborn mortality.
However, in terms of non-income indicators of poverty – for example, child mortality, malnutrition, and school dropouts – India’s performance has been dismal (in some respects worse even than in sub-Saharan Africa).
We have continued to see meaningful reductions in infant mortality and malnutrition, and there have been massive strides toward eradication of polio, measles, malaria, and illiteracy.
Reductions in poverty have gone hand in hand with a four-fold reduction in global air pollution mortality.
They concluded that improved access to contraception and family-planning services would reduce maternal and child mortality, and also – through a demographic dividend – increase economic growth.
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