Child mortality

Aisha Hanif PM 565 04/28/15 Global Health Country Report Pakistan: Child Health and Mortality Introduction Since it’s separation from India in 1947, Pakistan steadily grew to a country with a population of about 184.35 million people in 2013, making it the sixth most populous country in the world (“About Pakistan”). Pakistan is broken into four provinces: Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (“About Pakistan”). Its capital is the city of Islamabad. While Pakistan has taken many

Child mortality is a huge issue in many parts of the world, but we mainly see higher rates of child mortality in impoverished countries. One country in Africa that has high child mortality rates is Somalia. Although Somalia’s child mortality rates are decreasing throughout the years, Somalia still has extremely high rates of child mortality. According to the World Health Organization, there are numerous factors that contribute to such high rates of child mortality and some of these contributing

(Bourguignon & Morrisson, 2002). Mortality is an important indicator of the health of a nation, particularly infant mortality which is associated with a variety of factors such as maternal health, quality and access to medical care, socioeconomic conditions, and public health practices (MacDorman & Matthews, 2009). This study will use Canadian data to compare life expectancy in 1881, 1901, 1921, and 1941. It will also examine infant mortality, maternal mortality, and age-specific death rates by leading

Despite major health care advances and increased food production, child mortality and hunger still exist. Child mortality applies to children five years old and younger. Almost all of the countries with the highest rates of child mortality are in Africa. The two countries with the highest rates of child mortality are India and Nigeria (Gladstone). Angola, a country in Africa, is ranked number one in the world for the rate at which children are dying before the age of five (Kristof, “Deadliest”)

Since decades child health have persisted in debilitating conditions throughout the world particularly in developing countries where child mortality rates remain elevated. Eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were proposed by United Nations in 2000 for its member states to be achieved by 2015. These MDGs provided guidance and direction to the national and global health priorities. Out of these eight MDGs, goal 4 was related to children mortality and target was set to reduce by two third, the

Furthermore, the decline in childhood mortality in Kenya reflects the recent global trend of under-5 mortality reduction at a faster pace than at any other time in the past two decades (UNICEF, 2014). The Ministry of Health (2015) describes malaria as a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Kenya, with more than 70 percent of the country's population at risk of infection. In Kenya, scientists have shown through studies that areas that have latitudes ranging from 0 to 1300 meters such as around

are poverty, education, gender equality, child mortality, maternal health, disease, the environment and global partnership place attention on areas that will help the improvement and betterment of underdeveloped countries. MDGs goals and objectives are clear and concise with a development plan in place to make changes with underdeveloped and middle-income countries. Equally are all eight of the goals, but focusing on poverty, hunger and child mortality, will bring these two goals to the forefront

education 3- Promote gender equality and empower women 4- Reduce child mortality 5- Improve maternal health 6- Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases 7- Ensure environmental sustainability 8- Develop a global partnership for development (UNDP) The first following six (6) are nutrition related: 1- Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger 2- Achieve universal primary education 3- Promote gender equality and empower women 4- Reduce child mortality 5- Improve maternal health 6- Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and

are poverty, education, gender equality, child mortality, maternal health, disease, the environment and global partnership place attention on areas that will help the improvement and betterment of underdeveloped countries. MDG goals and objectives are clear and concise with a development plan in place to make changes with underdeveloped and middle-income countries. Equally are all eight of the goals, but focusing on poverty, hunger and child mortality, will bring these two goals to the forefront

Children Fund (UNICEF) reports that “although analyses of recent trends show that the country is making progress in cutting down infant and under-five mortality rates, the pace still remains too slow to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of reducing child mortality by a third by 2015”, but that “the tragedy behind this slow pace of progress in child survival is that two-thirds of the under-five deaths could be avoided, since life-saving interventions are well known and can be implemented on