Child mortality in South Africa: Is the Sustainable Development Goal (3.2) target achievable with current efforts?
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Date
2018
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Publisher
Health and Medical Publishing Group (HMPG)
Abstract
The two articles by Bamford et al.[1,2] in the recent
SAMJ Maternal and Child Health Supplement present trends in
inpatient case fatality rates for diarrhoeal disease, pneumonia and
severe acute malnutrition (SAM), and a review of under-5 mortality
and cause of death using several sources of nationally representative
data. While these reviews provide evidence of some improvement,
seemingly limited to the impact of prevention of mother-to-child
transmission roll-out, we have some comments related to the interpretation
of the data.
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Keywords
Inpatient case fatality rates, Diarrhoeal disease, Pneumonia, Severe acute malnutrition (SAM), Improvement
Citation
Doherty, T. et al. (2018). Child mortality in South Africa: Is the Sustainable Development Goal (3.2) target achievable with current efforts?. South African Medical Journal, 108(10): 795.