Child Health and Survival in a Changing World
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Shadae Paul; Donna M. Denno
- Source
- Pediatric clinics of North America. 64(4)
- Subject
- 030231 tropical medicine
Psychological intervention
Global Health
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Environmental health
Infant Mortality
Global health
Medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Social determinants of health
Child
Poverty
Health policy
business.industry
Child Health
Infant
Infant mortality
Child mortality
Health promotion
Child, Preschool
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Child Mortality
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 1557-8240
Ninety-nine percent of the 5.9 million annual child deaths occur in low and middle-income countries. Undernutrition underlies 45% of deaths. Determinants include access to care, maternal education, and absolute and relative poverty. Socio-political-economic factors and policies tremendously influence health and their determinants. Most deaths can be prevented with interventions that are currently available and recommended for widespread implementation. Millennium Development Goal 4 was not achieved. Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 presents an even more ambitious target and opportunity to save millions of lives; and requires attention to scaling up interventions, especially among the poorest and most vulnerable children.