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SUBMITTER: Reiner RC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9726883 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Reiner Robert C RC Hay Simon I SI
Nature communications 20221206 1
Despite substantial declines since 2000, lower respiratory infections (LRIs), diarrhoeal diseases, and malaria remain among the leading causes of nonfatal and fatal disease burden for children under 5 years of age (under 5), primarily in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The spatial burden of each of these diseases has been estimated subnationally across SSA, yet no prior analyses have examined the pattern of their combined burden. Here we synthesise subnational estimates of the burden of LRIs, diarrhoe ...[more]