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Mapping under-5 and neonatal mortality in Africa, 2000–15: a baseline analysis for the Sustainable Development Goals

2017; Elsevier BV; Volume: 390; Issue: 10108 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0140-6736(17)31758-0

1474-547X

Nick Golding, Roy Burstein, Joshua Longbottom, Annie J. Browne, Nancy Fullman, Aaron Osgood‐Zimmerman, Lucas Earl, Samir Bhatt, Ewan Cameron, Daniel Casey, Laura Dwyer‐Lindgren, Tamer H. Farag, Abraham D. Flaxman, Maya Fraser, Peter W. Gething, Harry S. Gibson, Nicholas Graetz, L Kendall Krause, Xie Rachel Kulikoff, Stephen S Lim, Bonnie Mappin, Chloe Morozoff, Robert C. Reiner, Amber Sligar, David L. Smith, Haidong Wang, Daniel J. Weiss, Christopher J L Murray, Catherine L. Moyes, Simon I Hay,

Global Health Care Issues

During the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) era, many countries in Africa achieved marked reductions in under-5 and neonatal mortality. Yet the pace of progress toward these goals substantially varied at the national level, demonstrating an essential need for tracking even more local trends in child mortality. With the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, which established ambitious targets for improving child survival by 2030, optimal intervention planning and targeting will require understanding of trends and rates of progress at a higher spatial resolution. In this study, we aimed to generate high-resolution estimates of under-5 and neonatal all-cause mortality across 46 countries in Africa.