Child mortality estimation: a comparison of UN IGME and IHME estimates of levels and trends in under-five mortality rates and deaths.
BACKGROUND: Millennium Development Goal 4 calls for a reduction in the under-five mortality rate (U5MR) by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015. In 2011, estimates were published by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) and the Institute for Health Metrics and Ev...
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Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2012-01-01
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Series: | PLoS Medicine |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3429386?pdf=render |