Circumstances of child deaths in Mali and Uganda: a community-based confidential enquiry

Summary: Background: Interventions to reduce child deaths in Africa have often underachieved, causing the Millennium Development Goal targets to be missed. We assessed whether a community enquiry into the circumstances of death could improve intervention effectiveness by identifying local avoidable...

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Main Authors: Merlin L Willcox, DPhil, Elias Kumbakumba, MMed, Drissa Diallo, ProfPhD, Vincent Mubangizi, MMed, Peter Kirabira, MPH, Florence Nakaggwa, MSc, Birungi Mutahunga, MPH, Chiaka Diakité, MD, Eugene Dembélé, MD, Mamadou Traoré, ProfAFSA, Pierre Daou, MD, Drissa Bamba, MD, Amadou Traoré, PhD, Diafara Berthé, MSc, Nick Wooding, FRCGP, Kieran Dinwoodie, MRCGP, Sarah Capewell, MRCGP, Hamish Foster, MRCGP, Rowena Neville, MRCGP, Joseph Ngonzi, MMed, Jerome Kabakyenga, ProfPhD, David Mant, ProfFMedSci, Anthony Harnden, ProfFRCGP
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-06-01
Series:The Lancet Global Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X18302158