Reduce child mortality

Target

Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate

Health indicators

Under-five mortality rate
Infant mortality rate
Proportion of one-year-old children immunised against measles

Recommended reading

80 million lives: meeting the Millennium Development Goals in child and maternal survival: ( S. Fustukian; R. Keith; A. Penrose / Save the Children Fund , 2003); This report, produced by Save the Children on behalf of the Grow Up Free from Poverty Coalition, analyses the progress made towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals on infant and maternal surv...
Child survival 4: Applying an equity lens to child health and mortality: more of the same is not enough: ( C.G. Victoria; A. Wagstaff; J.A. Schellenberg; D. Gwatkin / The Lancet , 2003); Recommended reading; Gaps in child mortality between rich and poor countries are unacceptably wide and in some areas are becoming wider, as are the gaps between wealthy and poor children within most countries. They exist ...
Opportunities for Africa’s newborns: practical data, policy and programmatic support for newborn care in Africa: ( The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health , 2006); This report, published by the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, provides an overview of the continuum of care for maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) in Africa. The report inve...
Joint review of the maternal and child survival strategy in China: ( United Nations [UN] Children's Fund , 2006); This UNICEF report reviews maternal and child health (MCH) strategies in China. It analyses the factors that affect maternal and child mortality, recent trends and the impact of health related interve...
Health aid and infant mortality: ( P. Mishra;D. Newhouse / International Monetary Fund Working Papers , 2007); This IMF working paper examines the relationship between health aid and infant mortality, using data from 118 countries between 1973 and 2004. Although there is little evidence that aid promotes econo...
Neonatal and perinatal mortality: country, regional and global estimates: ( World Health Organization , 2006); Recommended reading; This report provides estimates of the number of deaths that occur during childbirth and the newborn period by country, regional groupings and globally. It describes different ways of measuring these d...