Prioritizing child health interventions in Ethiopia: modeling impact on child mortality, life expectancy and inequality in age at death.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The fourth Millennium Development Goal calls for a two-thirds reduction in under-5 mortality between 1990 and 2015. Under-5 mortality rate is declining, but many countries are still far from achieving the goal. Effective child health interventions that could reduce child mortality exist, but national decision-makers lack contextual information for priority setting in their respective resource-constrained settings. We estimate the potential health impact of increasing coverage of 14 selected health interventions on child mortality in Ethiopia (2011-2015). We also explore the impact on life expectancy and inequality in the age of death (Gini(health)).

Methods and findings

We used the Lives Saved Tool to estimate potential impact of scaling-up 14 health interventions

SUBMITTER: Onarheim KH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3413690 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature