Monitoring child mortality through community health worker reporting of births and deaths in Malawi: validation against a household mortality survey.

Monitoring child mortality through community health worker reporting of births and deaths in Malawi: validation against a household mortality survey.

BACKGROUND: The rate of decline in child mortality is too slow in most African countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of reducing under-five mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015. Effective strategies to monitor child mortality are needed where accurate vital registration data...

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Main Authors: Agbessi Amouzou, Benjamin Banda, Willie Kachaka, Olga Joos, Mercy Kanyuka, Kenneth Hill, Jennifer Bryce
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3928330?pdf=render

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