Contribution of child health interventions to under-five mortality decline in Ghana: A modeling study using lives saved and missed opportunity tools.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Increased coverage of interventions have been advocated to reduce under-five mortality. However, Ghana failed to achieve the Millennium Development Goal on child survival in 2015 despite improved coverage levels of some child health interventions. Therefore, there is the need to determine which interventions contributed the most to mortality reduction and those that can further rapidly reduce mortality to inform the prioritization of the scale-up of interventions.

Materials and methods

Deterministic mathematical modeling was done using Lives Saved and Missed Opportunity Tools. Secondary data was used, and the period of the evaluation was between 2008 and 2014. Some of the interventions assessed were complementary feeding, skilled delivery, and rotavirus vaccine.

SUBMITTER: Kolekang A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9342718 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature