Testing survey-based methods for rapid monitoring of child mortality, with implications for summary birth history data.

INTRODUCTION:Under-five mortality estimates are increasingly used in low and middle income countries to target interventions and measure performance against global development goals. Two new methods to rapidly estimate under-5 mortality based on Summary Birth Histories (SBH) were described in a prev...

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Main Authors: Eoghan Brady, Kenneth Hill
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5404757?pdf=render