Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis
6 Mag 2014
Remarkable financial and political efforts have been focused on the reduction of child mortality during the past few decades. Timely measurements of levels and trends in under-5 mortality are important to assess progress towards the Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) target of reduction of child mortality by two thirds from 1990 to 2015, and to identify models of success.