Age Distribution of All-Cause Mortality Among Children Younger Than 5 Years in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Coverage of essential child health and nutrition interventions in low- and middle-income countries remains suboptimal. Adverse exposures, such as undernutrition and infections, are particularly harmful during the 1000 days from conception until 2 years of age.

Objective

To investigate whether deaths in children younger than 5 years-which also reflect adverse exposures faced by children more broadly-are concentrated in the first 2 years after birth.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study used a synthetic cohort probability method with Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys from 77 low- and middle-income countries, with the earliest survey starting data collection in March 2010 and the most recent survey en

SUBMITTER: Karlsson O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9121187 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature