Sökning: "measles mortality"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden measles mortality.
1. Saving the child : regional, cultural and social aspects of the infant mortality decline in Iceland, 1770-1920
Sammanfattning : The dissertation deals with the infant mortality decline in Iceland during the 19th and early 20th Century. It shows that despite its low degree of urbanization, pre-transitional Iceland displayed higher infant mortality rates than most other European countries. LÄS MER
2. Risk factors for measles mortality : studies from Kenya and 19th century Stockholm
Sammanfattning : Measles kills about 1 million children per year in low-income developing countries. In many industrialized countries, the transmission of measles and its lethal effects have become controlled through immunization and social developments in general. LÄS MER
3. Gender inequity in child survival : travails of the girl child in rural north India
Sammanfattning : Background: While substantial progress has been made globally towards achieving United Nations Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) on child mortality, the decline is not sufficient to reach the targets set for 2015. The South Asian region, which includes India, was to achieve the MDG 4 target of 39 deaths per 1000 live births by 2015 but was estimated to have reached only 61 by 2011. LÄS MER
4. Child health and acute respiratory infections in Ethiopia : epidemiology for prevention and control
Sammanfattning : This thesis is based on studies in Butajira district in the south central part of Ethiopia and one study in the Ethio-Swedish Children's Hospital in Addis Ababa. The Butajira project has a continuous demographic surveillance system, established in 1987 in a sample of 10 communities with a total baseline population of about 30,000. LÄS MER
5. Seroepidemiology of vaccine-preventable and emerging RNA viruses in Rwanda
Sammanfattning : Abstract Infectious diseases are a leading cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa, and in Rwanda diarrhea, lower respiratory and other common infections are linked to high mortality and morbidity. For children ... LÄS MER