Download or read book Africa s Progress in Child Survival Report Series of Papers written by Forum (Dakar) and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Africa s Progress in Child Survival written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disease and Mortality in Sub Saharan Africa written by Dean T. Jamison and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current data and trends in morbidity and mortality for the sub-Saharan Region as presented in this new edition reflect the heavy toll that HIV/AIDS has had on health indicators, leading to either a stalling or reversal of the gains made, not just for communicable disorders, but for cancers, as well as mental and neurological disorders.
Download or read book Africa s Progress in Child Survival written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The State of Africa s Children 2008 written by and published by UNICEF. This book was released on 2008 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The State of Africa's Children 2008 is a regional edition of UNICEF's The State of the World's Children 2008 report. Complementary to the global report, it examines the state of child survival in Africa and highlights the need to position child health at the heart of the region's development and human rights agenda. It also outlines possible solutions - programmes, policies and partnerships - to accelerate progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals.--Publisher's description.
Download or read book The Challenges of Child Mortality in Africa and Implications for the Millennium Development Goals written by Samuel Aderemi Igbatayo and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child mortality rates have undergone considerable changes around the world, particularly in the past couple of decades; declining by a third, from 89 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 60 in 2009. While other developing regions have made significant progress in reducing child mortality, progress has been slow in Africa, making it unlikely for the continent as a whole to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on child mortality. Although under-five morality declined in the region by 21 percent, from 168 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 132 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2008; there is considerable variation in sub-regional trends, with only North Africa on course to meeting the MDG on child mortality by 2015. On the other hand, child mortality has actually increased in Chad, Congo, Kenya, South Africa and Zimbabwe between 1990 and 2008. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to examine the state of child mortality in Africa and the prospect s of achieving the MDG on same. The paper employs empirical data to analyze trends in child mortality in the region and reveals that unless concerted efforts are mobilized, most African countries are unlikely to reduce child mortality by two-third by 2015. It therefore presents a comprehensive policy framework anchored on sustainable poverty reduction strategies; increased fiscal allocation to the health sector; and scaling-up institutional mechanisms to implement health-related MDGs.
Download or read book Development Health and the Environment written by John H. Romani and published by HSRC Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Africa s Progress in Child Survival written by Africa Child Survival Initiative - Combatting Childhood Communicable Diseases and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disease Control Priorities Third Edition Volume 2 written by Robert Black and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evaluation of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) by the Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (DCP3) focuses on maternal conditions, childhood illness, and malnutrition. Specifically, the chapters address acute illness and undernutrition in children, principally under age 5. It also covers maternal mortality, morbidity, stillbirth, and influences to pregnancy and pre-pregnancy. Volume 3 focuses on developments since the publication of DCP2 and will also include the transition to older childhood, in particular, the overlap and commonality with the child development volume. The DCP3 evaluation of these conditions produced three key findings: 1. There is significant difficulty in measuring the burden of key conditions such as unintended pregnancy, unsafe abortion, nonsexually transmitted infections, infertility, and violence against women. 2. Investments in the continuum of care can have significant returns for improved and equitable access, health, poverty, and health systems. 3. There is a large difference in how RMNCH conditions affect different income groups; investments in RMNCH can lessen the disparity in terms of both health and financial risk.
Download or read book State of the World s Children written by UNICEF. and published by UNICEF. This book was released on 2009 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 20 November 2009, the global community celebrates the 20th anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the unique document that sets international standards for the care, treatment and protection of all individuals below age 18. To celebrate this landmark, the United Nations Children's Fund is dedicating a special edition of its flagship report The State of the World's Children to examining the Convention's evolution, progress achieved on child rights, challenges remaining, and actions to be taken to ensure that its promise becomes a reality for all children.
Download or read book Keeping Promises Measuring Results written by World Health Organization and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the report of the Commission for Information and Accountability for Women's and Children's Health to the United Nations. The Commission's ten recommendations focus on improving information for better results, improving tracking of resources, and stronger oversight of both results and resources at national and global levels.
Download or read book The Complementarity of MDG Achievements written by Jann Lay and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Childhood Possible written by W. Stephen Howard and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book WHO guideline on mass drug administration of azithromycin to children under five years of age to promote child survival written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the guideline was to provide an evidence-informed recommendation on whether mass drug administration of azithromycin, as a public health intervention for the reduction of under-five mortality, should (a) be rolled out universally in low- and middle-income countries, (b) be applied only in some situational contexts in low-and middle-income countries or (c) not be used at all.
Download or read book The Complementarity of MDG Achievements written by Jann Lay and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper analyzes complementarities between different Millennium Development Goals, focusing on child mortality and how it is influenced by progress in the other goals, in particular two goals related to the expansion of female education: universal primary education and gender equality in education. The authors provide evidence from eight Sub-Saharan African countries using two rounds of Demographic and Health Surveys per country and applying a consistent micro-econometric methodology. In contrast to the mixed findings of previous studies, for most countries the findings reveal strong complementarities between mothers' educational achievement and child mortality. Mothers' schooling lifts important demand-side constraints impeding the use of health services. Children of mothers with primary education are much more likely to receive vaccines, a crucial proximate determinant of child survival. In addition, better educated mothers tend to have longer birth intervals, which again increase the chances of child survival. For the variables related to the other goals, for example wealth proxies and access to safe drinking water, the analysis fails to detect significant effects on child mortality, a finding that may be related to data limitations. Finally, the study carries out a set of illustrative simulations to assess the prospects of achieving a reduction by two-thirds in the under-five mortality rate. The findings indicate that some countries, which have been successful in the past, seem to have used their policy space for fast progress in child mortality, for example by extending vaccination coverage. This is the main reason why future achievements will be more difficult and explains why the authors have a fairly pessimistic outlook.
Download or read book Children in Africa written by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Data and Analytics and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents key statistics relating to: (1) child malnutrition in Africa; (2) HIV/AIDS and Malaria in Africa; (3) child marriage, birth registration and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C); (4) education in Africa; (5) child mortality in Africa; (6) Drinking water and sanitation in Africa; and (7) maternal health in Africa. Highlighted statistics include: (1) In Africa, mortality rates among children under five decreased by 45 per cent between 1990 and 2012, but still half of the world's 6.6 million under-five deaths occur in Africa; (2) Pneumonia, malaria and diarrhoea account for 40% of all under-five deaths in Africa; (3) At least 1 in 3 children under five in Africa were stunted in 2011; (4) In 2012, there were an estimated 2.9 million children under 15 years living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa; (5) Over half of the world's out-of-school children (33 million) live in Africa; (6) The population in Africa with access to an improved drinking source more than doubled from 1990 to 2012; and (7) There has been major progress in the last decade in the use of insecticide-treated nets among children.
Download or read book From Summits to Solutions written by Hiroshi Kato and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A positive agenda for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 All 193 member nations of the United Nations agreed in September 2015 to adopt a set of seventeen "Sustainable Development Goals," to be achieved by 2030. Each of the goals—in such areas as education and health care —is laudable in and of itself, and governments and organizations are working hard on them. But so far there is no overall, positive agenda of what new things need to be done to ensure the goals are achieved across all nations. In a search of fresh approaches to the longstanding problems targeted by the Sustainable Development Goals, the Japan International Cooperation Agency and the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings mounted a collaborative research effort to advance implementation of Agenda 2030. This edited volume is the product of that effort. The book approaches the UN's goals through three broad lenses. The first considers new approaches to capturing value. Examples include Nigeria's first green bonds, practical methods to expand women's economic opportunities, benchmarking to reflect business contributions to achieving the goals, new incentives for investment in infrastructure, and educational systems that promote cross-sector problem solving. The second lens entails new approaches to targeting places, including oceans, rural areas, fast-growing developing cities, and the interlocking challenge of data systems, including geospatial information generated by satellites. The third lens focuses on updating governance, broadly defined. Issues include how civil society can align with the SDG challenge; how an advanced economy like Canada can approach the goals at home and abroad; what needs to be done to foster new approaches for managing the global commons; and how can multilateral institutions for health and development finance evolve.
