Objective: To analyse the impact of community approaches to improving newborn health and survival in low … and staffing; immediate breastfeeding and facility births; and neonatal mortality. We also extracted data on the primary … from 2001 to 2013. A 25 per cent reduction in neonatal mortality (relative risk, RR: 0.75; 95 per cent confidence interval …

fetuses. This paper examines the impacts of this on girl relative to boy mortality rates after birth, using data from 1973 …-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender gap in under-5 mortality rates, in line with surviving girls being more …

In this paper we analyze if an `urban mortality penalty' exists for today's developing countries, repeating the history … of industrialized nations during the 19th century. We analyze the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) of 19 Sub …-Saharan African countries for differences in child and adult mortality between rural and urban areas. Our findings indicate that child …